 | 1873 - 808 lapas
...advantage of Shakespeare's wit, v/hich was their precedent, great natural gifts, improved by stujy; Beaumont, especially, being so accurate a judge of...lived, submitted all his writings to his censure.' 'I am apt lo believe the English language in them arrived to its highest perfection.' ' Their plots... | |
 | English literature - 1874 - 274 lapas
...with the advantage of Shakspeare's wit, which was their precedent, great natural gifts, improved by study ; Beaumont especially being so accurate a judge...lived, submitted all his writings to his censure, and, 'tis thought, used his judgment in correcting, if not contriving, all his plots. What value he had... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1875 - 558 lapas
...Underwoods, vol. viii. pp. 326, 330. 9 This somewhat qualifies the assertion of Dryden, that " Beaumont was so accurate a judge of plays that Ben Jonson, while...lived, submitted all his writings to his censure ; and 'tis thought used his judgment in correcting, if not contriving, all his plots." See the remarks on... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1875 - 560 lapas
...Underwoods, vol. viii. pp. 326, 330. 9 This somewhat qualifies the assertion of Dryden, that " Beaumont was so accurate a judge of plays that Ben Jonson, while...lived, submitted all his writings to his censure ; and 'tis thought used his judgment in correcting, if not contriving, all his plots." See the remarks on... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1875 - 694 lapas
...at the Mermaid ! ' &c. 3 See the well-known passage in Dryden's On Dramatic Poesy : ' Beaumont was so accurate a judge of plays, that Ben Jonson, while...lived, submitted all his writings to his censure, and 'tis thought, used his judgment in correcting, if not contriving, all his plots.' * See Ben Jonson's... | |
 | John Nichol - 1879 - 186 lapas
...of conveying instruction to a population too ignorant to acquire it for themselves." " Beaumont was so accurate a judge of plays, that Ben Jonson, while...lived, submitted all his writings to his censure; and 'tis thought used his judgment in correcting, if not contriving, all his plots. " Jonson long survived... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 576 lapas
...great natural gifts, improved by study ; Beaumont, especially, being so accurate a judge of plavs, much baseness of mind that he can scarcely tell truth, or avoid lying, even wh 'tis thought, used his judgment in correcting, if not contriving, all his plots. What value he had... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 582 lapas
...natural gifts, improved by study ; Beaumont, especially, being so accurate a junjie of plays, that lien Jonson, while he lived, submitted all his writings to his censure and, 'tis thought, used his judgment in correcting, if not contriving, all his plots. What value he had... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1881 - 516 lapas
...advantage of Shakspeare's wit, which was their precedent (model), great natural gifts, improved by study ; Beaumont, especially, being so accurate a judge of plays, that Ben .Tonson, while he lived, submitted all his writings to his censure (judgment), and 'tis thought, used... | |
 | Short essays - 1885 - 208 lapas
...great natural gifts, improved by study ; Beaumont, especially, being so accurate a judge of players, that Ben Jonson, while he lived, submitted all his...writings to his censure ; and, it is thought, used his judgments in correcting, if not contriving, all his plots. What value he had for him appears by the... | |
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Beaumont and Fletcher, of whom I am next to speak, had, with the advantage of Shakespeare's wit, which was their precedent, great natural gifts improved by study; Beaumont especially being so accurate a judge of plays that Ben Jonson, while he lived,... 
