 | Francis Beaumont - 1750 - 560 pages
...underftood and imitated the Converfation of Gentlemen much better; whofe wild Debaucheries, and quicknefs of Wit in Repartees, no Poet can ever paint as they have done. Humour, which Ben Jonfon deriv'd from particular Perfons, they made it not their Bufinefs to defcribe... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 624 pages
...Pope, as Mr. Spence has recorded in his ANECDOTES, asserted, that " Beaumont was not concerned in above and imitated the conversation of gentlemen much better...debaucheries, and quickness of wit in repartees, no poet before them could paint as they have done. Humour, which Ben Jonson derived from particular persons,... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - English prose literature - 1800 - 591 pages
...Pope, as Mr. Spence has recorded in his ANECDOTES, asserted, that " Beaumont was not concerned in above imitated the conversation of gentlemen much better...debaucheries, and quickness of wit in repartees, no poet before them could paint as they have done. Humour, which Ben Jonson derived from particular persons,... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 548 pages
...regular than Shakspeare's, especially those which were made before Beaumont's death ; and they understood and imi-tated the conversation of gentlemen much better;...debaucheries, and quickness of wit in repartees, no poet before them could paint as they have 472 BRVDEfr. done. Humour, which Ben. Jonson derived from particular... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...than Shakspeare's, especially those which were made before Beaumont's, death ; and they understood and imitated the conversation of gentlemen much better...debaucheries, and quickness of wit in repartees, no poet before them could paint as they have done. Humour, which Ben. Jonson derived from particular persons,... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 1152 pages
...regular than Shakspeare's, especially those which were made before Beaumont's death ; and they understood and imitated the conversation of gentlemen much better...,whose wild debaucheries, and quickness of wit in iv 'partees, no poet before them eould paint as they have done. Humour, which Ben. Jonson derived from... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 432 pages
...than Shakespeare's, especially those which were made before Beaumont's death ; and they understood and imitated the conversation of gentlemen much better;...debaucheries, and quickness of wit in repartees, no poet before them could paint as they have done. Humouv, * which Ben Jonson derived from particular persons,... | |
 | Manual - Essays - 1809 - 288 pages
...Shakespeare's, especially those which were made before Beaumont's death ; and they understood and imitated I he- conversation of gentlemen much better, whose wild...debaucheries and quickness of wit in repartees, no poet before them could paint as they have done. Humour, which Ben Jonson derived from particular persons,... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1811 - 712 pages
...regular than Shakespeare's, especially those that were made before Beaumont's death. And they understood and imitated the conversation of gentlemen much better;...repartees, no poet can ever paint as they have done. Humour, which Ben Jonson derived from particular persons, they made it not their business to describe;... | |
 | Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont - English drama - 1811 - 712 pages
...regular than Shakespeare's, especially those that were made before Beaumont's death. And they understood and imitated the conversation of gentlemen much better;...repartees, no poet can ever paint as they have done. Humour, which Ben Jonson derived from particular persons, they made it not their business to describe;... | |
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Their plots were generally more regular than Shakespeare's, especially those which were made before Beaumont's death; and they understood and imitated the conversation of gentlemen much better; whose wild debaucheries, and quickness of wit in repartees,... 
