 | Francis Beaumont - 1750 - 560 lapas
...underftood and imitated the Converfation of Gentlemen much better; whofe wild Debaucheries, and quicknefs of Wit in Repartees, no Poet can ever paint as they have done. Humour, which Ben Jonfon deriv'd from particular Perfons, they made it not their Bufinefs to defcribe... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 624 lapas
...Pope, as Mr. Spence has recorded in his ANECDOTES, asserted, that " Beaumont was not concerned in above 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, which Ben Jonson derived from particular persons,... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 591 lapas
...Pope, as Mr. Spence has recorded in his ANECDOTES, asserted, that " Beaumont was not concerned in above 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, which Ben Jonson derived from particular persons,... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 548 lapas
...generally more regular than Shakspeare's, especially those which were made before Beaumont's death ; and they understood and imi-tated the conversation of...debaucheries, and quickness of wit in repartees, no poet before them could paint as they have 472 BRVDEfr. done. Humour, which Ben. Jonson derived from particular... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 lapas
...generally more regular than Shakspeare's, especially those which were made before Beaumont's, death ; and they understood and imitated the conversation of gentlemen...debaucheries, and quickness of wit in repartees, no poet before them could paint as they have done. Humour, which Ben. Jonson derived from particular persons,... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 1152 lapas
...generally more regular than Shakspeare's, especially those which were made before Beaumont's death ; and they understood and imitated the conversation of gentlemen...,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 - 1808 - 432 lapas
...generally more regular than Shakespeare's, especially those which were made before Beaumont's death ; and they understood and imitated the conversation of gentlemen...debaucheries, and quickness of wit in repartees, no poet before them could paint as they have done. Humouv, * which Ben Jonson derived from particular persons,... | |
 | James Mason - 1809 - 566 lapas
...comic talents on drunken sailors, clowns, constables, and watchmen. " They understood," says Dryden, " and imitated the conversation of gentlemen much better,...repartees, no poet can ever paint as they have done." This panegyric may sufficiently account for the preference given to their plays above all others in... | |
 | Manual - 1809 - 288 lapas
...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...debaucheries and quickness of wit in repartees, no poet before them could paint as they have done. Humour, which Ben Jonson derived from particular persons,... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1811 - 712 lapas
...generally more regular than Shakespeare's, especially those that were made before Beaumont's death. And they understood and imitated the conversation of gentlemen...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;... | |
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Jonson derived from particular persons, they made it not their business to describe; they represented all the passions very lively, but above all, love. I am apt to believe the... 
