...plays to a much higher degree of perfection than the French poets can reasonably hope to reach .... they understood and imitated the conversation of gentlemen...better, whose wild debaucheries and quickness of wit in repartee, no poet before them could paint as they have done. The clue to an understanding of Restoration...

...highest perfection." " Their plots were generally more regular than Shakespeare's, especially those that were made before Beaumont's death ; and they understood...imitated the conversation of gentlemen much better. . . . Their plays are now the most pleasant and frequent entertainments of the stage ; two of theirs...

...great natural gifts, improved by study .... Their plots were generally more regular than Shakespeare's, especially those which were made before Beaumont's...them could paint as they have done, Humour, which Ben |onson derived from particular persons, they made it not their business to describe: they represented...

...before he writ Every Man in his Humour. Their plots were generally more regular than Shakespeare's, especially those which were made before Beaumont's...debaucheries, and quickness of wit in repartees, no poet can ever paint as they have done. This humour of which Ben Jonson derived from particular persons,...

...literary criticism for the next hundred years. In comparison with Shakespeare, Beaumont and Fletcher ' understood and imitated the conversation of gentlemen...no poet before them could paint as they have done'. Or, in his lines to Congreve : In easie Diaiogue ь p/eíc/,er's praise : He mov'd the Mind, but had...

...before he wrote Every Man in his Humour. 'Their plots were generally more regular than Shakespeare's, especially those which were made before Beaumont's...debaucheries, and quickness of wit in repartees, no poet can ever paint as they have done. This humour, of which Ben Jonson derived from particular persons,...

...cit., 1971, vol. XVII, p. 48), nella seconda edizione l'ultima parte viene sostituita da "whose wilde debaucheries, and quickness of wit in repartees, no Poet before them could paint as they have done" (Ibid., p. 56) 23 "The Defence of the Epilogue or, An Essay on the Dramatic Poetry of the Last Age",...

...before he writ Every Man in his Humour. "Their plots were generally more regular than Shakespeare's, especially those which were made before Beaumont's...debaucheries, and quickness of wit in repartees, no poet can ever paint as they have done. This humour, of which Ben Jonson derived from particular persons,...

...was only repeating a commonplace when he said, comparing Beaumont and Fletcher with Shakespeare, that 'they understood and imitated the conversation of...debaucheries and quickness of wit in repartees no poet can ever paint as they have done.' The morality of their plays, bad as it may seem to us in some cases,...

...and Fletcher " understood and imitated the conversation of gentlemen much better [than Shakespeare] ; whose wild debaucheries, and quickness of wit in repartees, no poet before them could paint as they have donew." True it is that they painted such "gentlemen" excellently ; but Shakespeare would not have...