 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 lapas
...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 last plays were but...judge of himself as well as others. One cannot say he wanted wit, but rather that he was frugal of it. In his works you find little to retrench or alter.... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 426 lapas
...appellation. We shall here add a character of Ben Jonsou as sketched by Dryden: " If we look upon him while he was himself (for his last plays were but...most learned and judicious writer which .any theatre 'evey had. He was a most severe Jt ON judge of himself as -well . as others. One cannot say he wanted... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 416 lapas
...appellation. We shall here add a character of Ben Jonson as sketched by Dryden : " If we look upon him while he " was himself (for his last plays " were...but his dotages), I think " him the most learned and judi" cious writer which any theatre " ever had. He was a most severe JON "judge of himself as well... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 430 lapas
...appellaiion. We shall here add a character of Ben Jonson as sketched by Dryden : " If we look upon him while he " was himself (for his last plays "were but his dotages), I think " him the most learned and judir " cious writer which any theatre '*' ever had. He was a most severe -JON ' judge of himself as... | |
 | John Aikin - 1812 - 462 lapas
...Milton has celebrated the « learn* ed sock" of Jonson ; and Dryden has not scrupled to denominate him " the most learned and judicious writer which any theatre ever had." But if the proper object of comedy be to expose the ridiculous in real manners and characters, he cannot... | |
 | John Aikin - 1812 - 468 lapas
...positions. Milton has celebrated the " learned sock" of Jonson; and Dryden has not scrupled to denominate him " the most learned and judicious writer which any theatre ever had." But if the proper object of cortiedy be to expose the ridiculous in real manner* and characters, he... | |
 | George Burnett - 1813 - 546 lapas
...now arrived, if we look upon him while he was himself, (for bis last plays were but his dotages,) 1 think him the most learned and judicious writer which...judge of himself, as well as others. One cannot say he wanted wit, but rather that he was frugal of it. In his works you find little to retrench or alter.... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 616 lapas
...With respect to his talents for the theatre, Dryden, in his ' Essay on Dramatic Poetry,' pronounces him " the most learned and judicious writer which any theatre ever had;" and gives a particular examination of his ' Silent Woman,' as a model of perfection. His excellence,... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 624 lapas
...With respect to his talents for the theatre, Dryden, in his ' Essay on Dramatic Poetry,' pronounces him " the most learned and judicious writer which any theatre ever had;" and gives a particular cxami nation of his ' Silent Woman,' as a model of perfection. His excellence,... | |
 | 1845 - 816 lapas
...wit comes short of theirs. " As for Jonson, to whose character I am now arnved, if we look upon him while he was himself, (for his last plays were but his dotages,) I think him the most learned and Indicious writer which any theatre ever had. He was a most severe jndge ; of himself as well as others.... | |
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As for Jonson, to whose character I am now arrived, if we look upon him while he was himself (for his last plays were but his dotages), I think him the most learned and judicious writer which any theatre ever had. He was a most severe judge of himself,... 
