 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1875 - 560 oldal
...vol. xv. p. 354) : " If I would compare Jonson with Shakspeare I must acknowledge him the more correct poet, but Shakspeare the greater wit. Shakspeare was...dramatic poets : Jonson was the Virgil, the pattern of elaborate writing j I admire him, but I love Shakspeare. To conclude of him, as he has given us the... | |
 | James Mason - 1875 - 674 oldal
...Shakespeare, I must acknowledge him the more correct poet, but Shakespeare the greater wit Shakespeare was the Homer or father of our dramatic poets ; Jonson was the Virgil, the pattern of elaborate writings. I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.' Speaking of Ben Jonson, Fuller says : '... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 576 oldal
...with the idiom of ours. If I would compare him with Shnkspeare I must acknowledge him the more correct church since I left London for the plague, and it...the church more than I thought it could have done, t elaborate writing : I admire him, but I love Shakspeare. To conclude of him : as he has given us the... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 oldal
...the idiom of ours. If I would compare him with Sbakspeare, I must acknowledge him the more correct poet, but Shakspeare the greater wit. Shakspeare was...dramatic poets : Jonson was the Virgil, the pattern of elaborate writing ; I admire him, but I love Shakspeare. To conclnde of him : as he has given us the... | |
 | William Tegg - 1879 - 290 oldal
...erected to his memory, in Poets' Corner, inscribed, " 0 rare Ben Jonson." " Shakspeare," says Dryden, " was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets; Jonson was the Virgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakspeare." Of Jonsoii's poetry much is below mediocrity,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 582 oldal
...If I would compare him with Shakspeare I must acknowledge him the more correct poet, but Shalcspeare the greater wit. Shakspeare was the Homer, or father, of our dramatic poots : Jonson was the Virgil, the pattern of elaborate writing: I admire him, but I love Shakspeare.... | |
 | Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 oldal
...with Shakspere, I must acknowledge him the more correct poet, but Shakspere the greater wit. Shakspere was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets : Jonson was the Virgil, the pattern of elaborate writing ; I admire him, but I love Shakspere. London after the Fire. Methinks already from... | |
 | David Masson - 1880 - 880 oldal
...always returns fondly to the contemplation of his unparalleled greatness. " Shakespeare," he says, " was the Homer " or father of our dramatic poets ; Jonson was the Virgil, " the pattern of elaborate' writing : I admire him, but I love " Shakespeare/' Sufficiently orthodox on this point,... | |
 | Short essays - 1885 - 208 oldal
...Shakespeare, I must acknowledge him the mort correct poet, but Shakespeare the greater wit. Shakespeare was the Homer or father of our dramatic poets, Jonson was the Virgil, the pattern of elaborate writing. I admire him, but I love Shakespeare. To conclude of him, as he has given us the... | |
 | John Dryden - 1889 - 176 oldal
...the idiom of ours. If I would compare him with Shakspeare, I must acknowledge him the more correct poet, but Shakspeare the greater wit. Shakspeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatick poets ; Johnson was the Virgil, the pattern of elaborate 5 writing; I admire him, but I love... | |
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Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets; Jonson was the Virgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare. 
