 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1797 - 516 pages
...we look upon him while he was himfelf (for his laft plays were but his dotages),! think him the moft learned and judicious writer which any theatre ever had. He was a moft fevere judge of himfelf as well as others. One cannot fay he wanted wit, but rather that he was... | |
 | 1797 - 522 pages
...look upon him while he was himfelf (for his lafl plays were but his dotages) ,1 think him the molt learned and judicious writer which any theatre ever had. He was a moll fevere judge of himfelf as well as otlieis. One cannot f.iy he wanted "it, but rather that he... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 624 pages
...theirs. As for Jensen, to whose character I am now .arrived, if we look upon him while he was himself) (for his last plays were but his dotages,) I think | him the most learned and judicious writer which lany theatre ever had. He was a most severe judge £»f himself, as well as others. One cannot say... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 548 pages
...Jonson. As for Jonson, to whose character I am now ar' rived, if we look upon him while he was himself, (for his last plays were but his dotages,) I think...himself, as well as others. One cannot say he wanted wit, hut rather that he was frugal of it. In his works you find little to retrench or alter. Wit, and language,... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 1152 pages
...for Jonson, to whose character I am now arrived, if we look upon him while he was himself, (for liis last plays were but his dotages,) I think him the...himself, as well as others. One cannot say he wanted \vit' but rather that he was frugal of it. In his works you find little to retrench or alter. Wit,... | |
 | Manual - Essays - 1809 - 288 pages
...theirs. As for Jonson, to whose character I am no>r arrived, if we look upon him while he was himself, (for his last plays were but his dotages) I think...which any theatre ever had. He was a most severe judge ot'himself, as well as others. One cannot say that he wanted wit, but rather that he was frugal of... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - Dramatists, English - 1812 - 426 pages
...here add a character of Ben Jonsou as sketched by Dryden: " If we look upon him while he was himself (for his last plays were but his dotages), I think...most learned and judicious writer which .any theatre 'evey had. He was a most severe Jt ON judge of himself as -well . as others. One cannot say he wanted... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - English drama - 1812 - 430 pages
...add a character of Ben Jonson as sketched by Dryden : " If we look upon him while he " was himself (for his last plays "were but his dotages), I think " him the most learned and judir " cious writer which any theatre '*' ever had. He was a most severe -JON ' judge of himself as... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - English drama - 1812 - 416 pages
...add a character of Ben Jonson as sketched by Dryden : " If we look upon him while he " was himself (for his last plays " were but his dotages), I think " him the most learned and judi" cious writer which any theatre " ever had. He was a most severe JON "judge of himself as well... | |
 | John Aikin - 1812 - 462 pages
...Milton has celebrated the « learn* ed sock" of Jonson ; and Dryden has not scrupled to denominate him " the most learned and judicious writer which any theatre ever had." But if the proper object of comedy be to expose the ridiculous in real manners and characters, he cannot... | |
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As for Jonson, to whose character I am now arrived, if we look upon him while he was himself (for his last plays were but his dotages) , I think him the most learned and judicious writer which any theatre ever had. He was a most severe judge of himself,... 
