| Andrew Dousa Hepburn - 1875 - 298 páginas
...from the conclusion to the commencement. Ex.—"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 thiuk him the most learned and judicious writer which any theater ever had." " If grammar is learned... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 576 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. He was a most severe judge of himself, as well as others.... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 páginas
...Jonson's wit comes short of theirs. Ben Jbnson. 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 jndicious writer which any theatre ever had. He was a most severe jndge of himself, as well as others.... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 582 páginas
...and Ben Jonson's wit сошек short of theirs. As for Jonson, to whose character I am now arrived, . The hi* dotages) I think him the most learned nnd judicious writer which any theatre ever had. Île was... | |
| Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 páginas
...Suckling, and with him the greater part of the courtiers, set oui Shakspere far above him. As for Jonaon, 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.... | |
| Short essays - 1885 - 208 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. He was a most severe judge of himself as well as others.... | |
| 1888 - 576 páginas
...some great occasion is presented to him. * * ' As for Jonson, to whose character I am now arriv'd, 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 theater ever had. He was a most severe judge of himself as well as others.... | |
| John Dryden - 1889 - 208 páginas
...theirs. As for Johnson, to whose character I am now arrived, if we look upon him while he was himself, 20 (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.... | |
| James Mercer Garnett - 1891 - 728 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. He was a most severe judge of himself, as well as others.... | |
| John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1892 - 428 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. He was a most severe judge of himself, as well as others.... | |
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