 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 576 lapas
...and pathos in their more serious plays, which suits generally with all men's humours. Shakspeare's reverted eyes, like those monsters who look backwards. And yet As for Jonson, to whose character I am now arrived, if we look upon him while he was himself (for his... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 lapas
...and pathos in their more serious plays, which suits generally with all men's humours. Shakspeare's language is likewise a little obsolete, and Ben Jonson's wit comes short of theirs. Ben Jbnson. As for Jonson, to whose character I am now arrived, if we look upon him while he was himself... | |
 | 1880 - 784 lapas
...their comedies and pathos in their more serious plays which suits generally with all men's humours. Shakespeare's language is likewise a little obsolete, and Ben Jonson's wit comes short of theirs." Further, in his " Defence of the Epilogue," a postscript to his tragedies of the " Conquest of Granada,"... | |
 | Short essays - 1885 - 208 lapas
...gaiety in their comedies, and pathos in their more serious plays, which suits generally with all men's humour. Shakespeare's language is likewise a little...obsolete, and Ben Jonson's wit comes short of theirs. As for Jonson, to whose character I am now arrived, if we look upon him while he was himself (for his... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1887 - 526 lapas
...gaiety in their comedies, and pathos in their more serious plays, which suits generally with all men's humour. Shakespeare's language is likewise a little...obsolete, and Ben Jonson's wit comes short of theirs." Against this testimony as to the comparative popularity of Beaumont and Fletcher and Shakespeare, I... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - 1891 - 728 lapas
...their comedies, and pathos in their more serious plays, which suits generally with all men's humours. Shakespeare's language is likewise a little obsolete, and Ben Jonson's wit comes short of theirs. As for Jonson, to whose character I am now arrived, if we look upon him while he was himself (for his... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1892 - 428 lapas
...their comedies, and pathos in their more serious plays, which suits generally with all men's humours. Shakespeare's language is likewise a little obsolete, and Ben Jonson's wit comes short of theirs. As for Jonson, to whose character I am now arrived, if we look upon him while he was himself (for his... | |
 | John Dryden - 1892 - 428 lapas
...their comedies, and pathos in their more serious plays, which suits generally with all men's humours. Shakespeare's language is likewise a little obsolete, and Ben Jonson's wit comes short of theirs. As for Jonson, to whose character I am now arrived, if we look upon him while he was himself (for his... | |
 | William Watson - 1893 - 188 lapas
...their comedies and pathos in their more serious plays which suits generally with all men's humours. Shakespeare's language is likewise a little obsolete, and Ben Jonson's wit comes short of theirs.' And so, having survived the fame of most of their compeers, these graceful collaborators continued... | |
 | William Allingham - 1893 - 396 lapas
...their comedies, and pathos in their more serious plays, which suits generally with all men's humours. Shakespeare's language is likewise a little obsolete, and Ben Jonson's wit comes short of theirs.' Frank. It is very comforting, sir, to find the best holding up its head, like an island mountain amid... | |
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Shakespeare's or Jonson's: the reason is because there is a certain gaiety in their comedies, and pathos in their more serious plays which suits generally with all men's humours. Shakespeare's language is likewise a little obsolete, and Ben Jonson's wit... 
