 | John Dryden - 1800 - 624 pages
...Shakspeare'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...judgment in correcting, if not contriving, all his plots. What value he had for him, appears by the verses he writ to him ; and therefore I need speak no farther... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 591 pages
...Shafcspeare'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...judgment in correcting, if not contriving, all his plots. What value he had for him, appears by the verses he writ to him ; and therefore I need speak no farther... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 548 pages
...wit, which was their precedent, great natural gifts, improved by study ; Beaumont especially, being so accurate a judge of plays, that Ben. Jonson, while...in correcting, if not contriving, 'all his plots. What value he had for him, appears by the verses he writ to him, and therefore I need speak no farther... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...wit, which was their precedent, great natural gifts, improved by study ; Beaumont especially, being so accurate a judge of plays, that Ben. Jonson, while...judgment in correcting, if not contriving, all his plots. What value he had for him, appears by the verses he writ to him, and therefore I need speak no farther... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 432 pages
...wit, which was their precedent, great natural gifts, improved by study ; Beaumont especially being so accurate a judge of plays, that Ben Jonson, while...judgment in correcting, if not contriving, all his plots. What value he had for him, appears by the verses he writ to him ; and therefore I need speak no farther... | |
 | Manual - 1809 - 288 pages
...wit, which was their precedent, great natural gifts improved by study ; Beaumont, especially, being so accurate a judge of plays, that Ben Jonson while...lived, submitted all his writings to his censure, and it is thought used his judgment in correcting, if not contriving, all his * As cypresses above the... | |
 | Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont - 1811 - 728 pages
...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...judgment in correcting, if not contriving all his plots What value he had for him appears by the verses he wrote to him, and therefore I need speak no farther... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1811 - 712 pages
...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...judgment in correcting, if not contriving all his plots -What value he had for him appears by the verses he wrote to him, and therefore I need speak no farther... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1812 - 562 pages
...following passage of his Essay on Dramatic Poesy, printed in 1666: study; Beaumont especially being so accurate a judge of plays, that Ben Jonson, while...lived, submitted all his writings to his censure, and it is thought used his judgment in correcting, if not contriving, all his plots. What value he had... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...gifts, improved by study; Beaumont especially ' j^ being so accurate a judge of players, that Hen ej{ Jonson, while he lived, submitted all his writings , |,|| to his censure, and, it is thought, used his jmlg„' ment in correcting, if not contriving, all his plots. jjtt What value... | |
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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,... 
