 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 648 lapas
...words have since been taken in are rather superfluous than ornamental. Their plays are now the most pleasant and frequent entertainments of the stage...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... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 648 lapas
...words have since been taken in are rather superfluous than ornamental. Their plays\are now the most pleasant and frequent entertainments of the stage...more serious plays, which% suits generally with all men's humours. Shakespeare's language is likewise a little obsplete, and Ben Jonson's wit^comes short... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1895 - 496 lapas
...Beaumont and Fletcher were praised by Dryden in the time of Charles II., when their plays were "the most pleasant and frequent entertainments of the stage,...through the year for one of Shakespeare's or Jonson's." Peculiar interest is thus attached to the fate of one play in the period of this later Stuart popularity.... | |
 | Hermann Ulrici - 1895 - 578 lapas
...Beaumont and Fletcher ; and Dryden, in speaking of the two latter, says, ' their plays are now the most pleasant and frequent entertainments of the stage,...of theirs being acted through the year for one of Shakspeare's.' The play during the representation of which, in the winter of 1648, the theatre was... | |
 | John Dryden - 1898 - 224 lapas
...frequent entertainments of the stage; two of theirs being acted through the year for one of Shakspeare's 5 or Jonson's: the reason is, because there is a certain...more serious plays, which suits generally with all men'o humours. Shakespeare's language is likewise a little obsolete, and Ben Jonson's wit comes short... | |
 | John Dryden - 1898 - 232 lapas
...words have since been taken in, are rather superfluous than ornamental. Their plays are now the most pleasant and frequent entertainments of the stage;...of theirs being acted through the year for one of Shakspeare's 5 or Jonson's : the reason is, because there is a certain gaiety in their comedies, and... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1899 - 1172 lapas
...great literati." Dryden tells us that Beaumont and Fletcher's plays in Ms time were the most pleasing and frequent entertainments of the stage, two of theirs being acted through the year for one of Shakspeare'a or of Jonson'e, Sir John Berkenhead has no hesitation in avowing his preference for Fletcher... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1900 - 462 lapas
...words have since been taken in are rather superfluous than ornamental. Their plays are now the most pleasant and frequent entertainments of the stage;...Jonson's: the reason is because there is a certain gayety in their comedies, and pathos in their more serious plays, which suits generally with all men's... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson, Godfrey Locker Lampson - 1900 - 518 lapas
...Beaumont and Fletcher." Dryden states that the plays of Beaumont and Fletcher were, in his day, the most pleasant and frequent entertainments of the stage...the year, for one of Shakespeare's or Jonson's." The first in order of time among more than fifty plays published with their joint names, was "The Woman... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900 - 420 lapas
...words have since been taken in, are rather superfluous than ornamental 3. Their plays are now the most pleasant and frequent entertainments of the stage...being acted through the year for one of Shakespeare's 20 or Johnson's : the reason is, because there is a certain gaiety in their comedies, and pathos in... | |
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Their plays are now the most pleasant and frequent entertainments of the stage; two of theirs being acted through the year for one of Shakespeare's or Jonson's... 
