 | John Dryden - 1800 - 624 pages
...Mr. Spence has recorded in his ANECDOTES, asserted, that " Beaumont was not concerned in above and imitated the conversation of gentlemen much better...represented all the passions very lively, but above all, love. I am apt to believe the English language in them arrived to its highest perfection ; what... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...than Shakspeare's, especially those which were made before Beaumont's, death ; and they understood and imitated the conversation of gentlemen much better...represented all the passions very lively, but above all, love. I am apt to believe the English language in them arrived to its highest perfection ; what... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 548 pages
...than Shakspeare's, especially those which were made before Beaumont's death ; and they understood and imi-tated the conversation of gentlemen much better;...repartees, no poet before them could paint as they have 472 BRVDEfr. done. Humour, which Ben. Jonson derived from particular persons, they made it not their... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 1152 pages
...than Shakspeare'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 iv 'partees, no poet before them eould paint as they have done. Humour, which Ben. Jonson derived from... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 432 pages
...than Shakespeare's, especially those which were made before Beaumont's death ; and they understood and imitated the conversation of gentlemen much better;...no poet before them could paint as they have done. Humouv, * which Ben Jonson derived from particular persons, they made it not their business to describe... | |
 | Manual - Essays - 1809 - 288 pages
...Shakespeare's, especially those which were made before Beaumont's death ; and they understood and imitated I he- conversation of gentlemen much better, whose wild...represented all the passions very lively, but, above all, love. I am inclined to believe the English language in them arrived to its highest perfection;... | |
 | James Mason - 1809 - 566 pages
...talents on drunken sailors, clowns, constables, and watchmen. " They understood," says Dryden, " and imitated the conversation of gentlemen much better,...debaucheries and quickness of wit in repartees, no poet can ever paint as they have done." This panegyric may sufficiently account for the preference given... | |
 | Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont - English drama - 1811 - 728 pages
...gentlemen much better; whose wild debaucheries, and quickness of wit in repartees, no poet can ever paint as they have done. Humour, which Ben Jonson...represented all the passions very lively, but above all love. I am apt to believe the English language in them arrived to its highest perfection; what... | |
 | Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont - English drama - 1811 - 712 pages
...than Shakespeare's, especially those that 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 can ever paint as they have done. Humour, which Ben Jonson derived from particular persons, they made... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1811 - 712 pages
...than Shakespeare's, especially those that 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 can ever paint as they have done. Humour, which Ben Jonson derived from particular persons, they made... | |
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Beaumont's death ; and they understood and imitated the conversation of gentlemen much better ; whose wild debaucheries, and quickness of wit in repartees, no poet before them could paint as they have done. Humour, which Ben Jonson derived from particular... 
