 | Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson - Europe - 1906 - 422 pages
...are now," he says, " the most pleasant and frequent entertainments of the stage, two of theirs being acted through the year for one of Shakespeare's or...plays which suits generally with all men's humours." What Dryden indicates is not difficult to find. All the attractive qualities of Beaumont and Fletcher's... | |
 | 1906 - 466 pages
...are now," he says, "the most pleasant and frequent entertainments of the stage, two of theirs being acted through the year for one of Shakespeare's or...plays which suits generally with all men's humours." What Dryden indicates is not difficult to find. All the attractive qualities of Beaumont and Fletcher's... | |
 | Grace Eleanor Hadow, William Henry Hadow - English literature - 1907 - 432 pages
...now the most pleasant and frequent entertainments of the stage ; two of theirs being acted throughout the year for one of Shakespeare's or Jonson's: the...obsolete, and Ben Jonson's wit comes short of theirs.' A century later they had suffered from the change of taste, and the elder Colman mentions that in 1763... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1908 - 442 pages
...entertainments of the stage ; two of theirs being acted through the year for one of Shakespeare's or Johnson's : the reason is, because there is a certain gaiety in...plays, which suits generally with all men's humours. It would be unsafe to assert that The Knight of the Burning Pestle was received with pronounced favor,... | |
 | 1908 - 446 pages
...entertainments of the stage ; two of theirs being acted through the year for one of Shakespeare's or Johnson's : the reason is, because there is a certain gaiety in...plays, which suits generally with all men's humours. It would be unsafe to assert that The Knight of the Burning Pestle was received with pronounced favor,... | |
 | Levin Ludwig Schücking - 1908 - 224 pages
...hier ist ein anderer. Vgl. oben S. 82 Anmerkung. SS 85. Dryden über Beaumont-Fletchers Beliebtheit: The reason is because there is a certain gaiety in...more serious plays, which suits generally with all mens' humours (Essay v. 1668). SS 85. Chapmans „All t'ools", vgl. die Diss. von Max Stier, H.ille... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1908 - 482 pages
...through the year for one of Shakespeare's or Johnson's : the reason is, because there is a certain I gaiety in their comedies, and pathos in their more serious plays, which I suits generally with all men's humours. It would be unsafe to assert that The Knight of the Burning... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - American literature - 1910 - 812 pages
...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...Shakespeare's language is likewise a little obsolete, and Hen Jonson's wit comes short of theirs.— DRYDEN, JOHN, 1608-93, An Essay of Dramatic Poesy, Works,... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1914 - 362 pages
...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...comedies, and pathos in their more serious plays, which suit generally with all men's humours. Shakesp?are's language is likewise a little obsolete, and Ben... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - English literature - 1915 - 858 pages
...the stage, as any whereserious plays, which suits generally with all with the French can furnish us." tant surge! Yes, while I stood and gazed, my temples...shot my being through earth, sea and air, Possess 30 "As for Jonson, to whose character I am now (From preface (g TrMus and Cressidut 1679) arrived,... | |
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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 : the reason is, because there is a certain gaiety in their comedies, and pathos in their... 
