 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 648 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... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 674 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 - 1898 - 232 lapas
...their comedies, and pathos in their more serious plays, which suits generally with all men';, humours. Shakespeare's language is likewise a little obsolete, and Ben Jonson's wit comes short 10 of theirs. "As for Jonson, to whose character I am now arrived, if we look upon him while he was... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1900 - 462 lapas
...their comedies, and pathos in their more serious plays, which suits generally with all men's humors. 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... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 448 lapas
...their comedies, and pathos in their more serious plays, which suits generally with all men's humors. 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... | |
 | Grace Eleanor Hadow, William Henry Hadow - 1907 - 432 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.' A century later they had suffered from the change of taste, and the elder Colman mentions that in 1763... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1909 - 572 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... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1912 - 788 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 Henry Hudson - 1914 - 362 lapas
...and pathos in their more serious plays, which suit generally with all men's humours. Shakesp?are'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... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - 1915 - 852 lapas
...whereserious plays, which suits generally with all with the French can furnish us." men's humours. Shakespeare's language is likewise a little obsolete, and Ben Jonson's wit comes short of theirs. 30 "As for Jonson, to whose character I am now (From Preface to Trouva and Cressida, 1679) arrived,... | |
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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... 
