 | Henry Morley - 1883 - 938 pages
...for having " understood and imitated much better than Shakespeare the conversation of gentlemen whoso wild debaucheries and quickness of wit in repartees no poet can ever paint as they have done. Humour, which Ben Jonson derived from particular persons, they made it not their business to describe... | |
 | Short essays - 1885 - 208 pages
...than Shakespeare's, especially those which were made before Beaumont's death ; and they understood and imitated the conversation of gentlemen much better, whose wild debaucheries, and quickness of repartees, no poet can ever paint as they have done. That humour which Ben Jonson derived from particular... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1886 - 304 pages
...acted for one of Shakspere's or Jonson's throughout the year, and he added, that they " understood and imitated the conversation of gentlemen much better,...repartees no poet can ever paint as they have done." Wild debauchery was certainly not the mark of a gentleman in Shakspere, nor was it altogether so in... | |
 | Frederick James Furnivall - 1886 - 466 pages
...underftood and imitated the converfation of Gentlemen much better; whofe wilde debaucheries, and quicknefs of wit in repartees, no Poet can ever paint as they have done. * * * * Their Playes are now the most pleafant and frequent entertainments of the Stage; two of theirs... | |
 | Francis Beaumont - 1887 - 522 pages
...regular than Shakespeare's, specially those ithat were made before Beaumont's death. And they understood and imitated the conversation of gentlemen much better,...repartees, no poet can ever paint as they have done. Humour, which Ben Jonson derived from particular persons, they made it not their business to describe... | |
 | John Dryden - 1889 - 176 pages
...those which were made before Beaumont's death * ; and they understood and imitated 1 treated of, A. the conversation of gentlemen much better; whose wild debaucheries, and quickness of wit in reparties, no poet before them could paint l as they have done. Humour, which2 Ben Johnson derived... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1890 - 320 pages
...were acted for one of Shakspere's or Jonson's throughout the year, and he added that they "understood and imitated the conversation of gentlemen much better,...of wit in repartees no poet can ever paint as they h:ive done." .Wild debauchery was certainly not the mark of a gentleman in Shakspere, nor was it altogether... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - 1890 - 730 pages
...than Shakespeare's, especially those which were made before Beaumont's death ; and they understood and imitated the conversation of gentlemen much better...debaucheries, and quickness of wit in repartees, no poet before them could paint as they have done. Humour,14 which Ben Jonson derived from particular persons,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1892 - 428 pages
...edition, " treated of."— ED.] i ' : which were made before Beaumont's death ; and they understood and imitated the conversation of gentlemen much better...debaucheries, and quickness of wit in repartees, no poet before them could paint* as they have done. Humour, t which Ben Jonson derived from particular persons,... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1892 - 428 pages
...[First edition, " treated of."— ED.] which were made before Beaumont's death ; and they understood and imitated the conversation of gentlemen much better...debaucheries, and quickness of wit in repartees, no poet before them could paint* as they have done. Humour, t which Ben Jonson derived from particular persons,... | |
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Their plots were generally more regular than Shakespeare's, especially those which were made before Beaumont's death; and they understood and imitated the conversation of gentlemen much better; whose wild debaucheries, and quickness of wit in repartees,... 
