 | John Matthews Manly - 1909 - 578 oldal
...think him the most learned and judicious1' writer wj1ich any theatre ever had. He was a ~~ most severe judge of himself, as well as others. One cannot say...find little to retrench or alter. Wit and language, ajid humour also in some me'asure, we had before him; but something of art was wanting to the drama,... | |
 | 1910 - 546 oldal
...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. One cannot say...something of art was wanting to the Drama, till he came." ' Since Dryden wrote thus of Ben Jonson, who "can be taxed with fewer failings than any English poet,"... | |
 | 1910 - 550 oldal
...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. One cannot say...something of art was wanting to the Drama, till he came." ' Since Dryden wrote thus of Ben Jonson, who "can be taxed with fewer failings than any English poet,"... | |
 | Otto Diede - 1912 - 152 oldal
...Jonson ist nach Drydens Urteil „the most learned and judicious writer which any theatre ever had .... One cannot say he wanted wit, but rather that he was...and humour also in some measure, we had before him; ') Ker I, 79,31 ff. 2) Ebd. 80,2 ff. but something of art was wanting to the Drama, till he came."1)... | |
 | Walter Swain Hinchman - 1915 - 488 oldal
...pithy comments on literature rank beside Bacon's vivid sentences on life. So, of Jonson he says : " One cannot say he wanted wit, but rather that he was frugal of it; " — again: " He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets, is only victory... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 468 oldal
...judicious writer which any theater ever had. He was a most • severe judge of himself, as well as [no others. One cannot say he wanted wit, but rather that...little to retrench or alter. Wit and language, and humor also in some measure, we had before him; but something of art was wanting to the drama, till... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 924 oldal
...severe judge^oTTttlhself, as well as [no others. One cannot say he wanted but rather that he was frjigal sio This Chauntecleer stood hye up-on his toos, Strecching his nekke, and heeld humor also in some measure, we had before him; but something of art was wanting to the drama, till... | |
 | John Dryden - 1922 - 252 oldal
...which any I/ theatre ever had. He was a most severe judge himself, as well as others. One cannot say wit, but rather that he was frugal of it. In his works 24 'In the large book of plays you late did print, In Beaumont's and in Fletcher's name, why in't Did... | |
 | 1944 - 1098 oldal
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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,... 
