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,... The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher - xxv. lappuseautors: Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1840Pilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
| 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... | |
| James Mason - 1809 - 566 lapas
...watchmen. " They understood," says Dryden, " and imitated the conversation of gentlemen much better, whose wild 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 to their plays above all others in... | |
| Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont - 1811 - 728 lapas
...before 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 can ever paint as they have done. Humour, which Ben Jonson derived from particular persons, they made it not their business to describe;... | |
| Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1811 - 712 lapas
...before 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 can ever paint as they have done. Humour, which Ben Jonson derived from particular persons, they made it not their business to describe;... | |
| John Genest - 1832 - 656 lapas
...regular than Shakspeare's — they understood and imitated the conversation of Gentlemen much better; whose wild debaucheries and quickness of wit in repartees, no poet can ever paint as they have done — they represented all the passions very lively, but above all, Love — their plays are now the... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1846 - 752 lapas
...according to Dryden, understood and imitated much better than Shakspeare " the conversation of gentlemen, whose wild debaucheries, and quickness of wit in repartees, no poet can ever paint as they have done." We trust that they never will be equalled in this department of character. Their " studiously protracted... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1846 - 550 lapas
...according to Dryden, understood and imitated much better than Shakspeare " the conversation of gentlemen, whose wild debaucheries, and quickness of wit in repartees, no poet can ever paint as they have done." We trust that they never will be equalled in this department of character. Their " studiously protracted... | |
| Edwin Percy Whipple - 1861 - 420 lapas
...Dryden, understood and imitated much betVOL. ii. 5 ter than Shakspeare " the conversation of gentlemen, whose wild debaucheries, and quickness of wit in repartees, no poet can ever paint as they have done." We trust that they never will be equalled in this department of character. Their " studiously protracted... | |
| Henry Morley - 1873 - 964 lapas
...praise for having " understood and imitated much better than Shakespeare the conversation of gentlemen whose 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... | |
| Francis Beaumont - 1876 - 734 lapas
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