 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 páginas
...p. 66. 3. BEN JONSON.1 (FROM THE SAME WORK.) „ 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) (ie written in his dotage), I think him the" most learned and judicious writer which any theatre ever... | |
 | Class-book - 1869 - 344 páginas
...courtiers, set our Shakspeare far above him. Ben Jonson. As for Jonson, to whose character I am now arrived, if we look upon him while he was himself— for his...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, as well as others.... | |
 | sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 páginas
...courtiers, set our Shakespeare far above him. As for Jonson, to whose character I am 4 now arrived, if we look upon him while he was himself (for his...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, as well as others.... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1869 - 420 páginas
...courtiers, set our Shakspeare far above him. . As for Jonson, to whose character I am now arrived, if .re look upon him while he was himself (for his last plays were but nis dotages), I think him the most learned and judicious writer which anj theatre ever had. He was... | |
 | 1872 - 556 páginas
...Jonson's wit comes short of theirs. BEN JONSON. As for Jonson, to whose character I am now arrived, if we look upon him while he was himself (for his...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, as well as others.... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1872 - 786 páginas
...courtiers, set our Shakspeare far above him. BEN JONSON. 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 •lotages,) I think him the most learned and judicious writer which my theatre ever had. He was a... | |
 | Anthologia Anglica - 1873 - 512 páginas
...Jonson has earned his place in English literature. Dryden gives him high praise. ' If,' says he, ' we look upon him while he was himself (for his last...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 as well as of others.... | |
 | English literature - 1874 - 274 páginas
...obsolete, and Ben Jonson's 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...but his dotages), I think him the most learned and judicious writer which any theatre ever had. JJq was a most severe judge of himself as well as of others.... | |
 | James Mason - 1875 - 674 páginas
...excellent estimate of Ben Jonson's genius has been given by Dryden. 'As for Jonson,' says the poet, ' if we look upon him while he was himself (for his...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 as well as others.... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1875 - 508 páginas
...body, and his mind." Life of Edward Lord Clarendon, vol. i. 23. ed. 1760. " If we look upon JONSON 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 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,... 
