| William Peacock - English literature - 1903 - 408 pages
...was no subject of which any poet ever writ, but he would produce it much better done in Shakespeare; and however others are now generally preferred before...lived, which had contemporaries with him, Fletcher and Jonson never equalled them to him in their esteem: and in the last king's court, when Ben's reputation... | |
| Hermann Ulrici - 1908 - 524 pages
...into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. . . . However, others are now generally preferred to him, yet the age wherein he lived, which had contemporaries with him, Fletcher and Jonson never equall'd them to him in their esteem. And in the last King's Court, when Ben's reputation... | |
| William Henry Hudson - 1914 - 362 pages
...was no subject of which any poet ever writ, but he would produce it much better done in Shakespeare ; and however others are now generally preferred before...lived, which had contemporaries with him Fletcher and Jonson, never equalled them to him in their esteem: and in the last king's court, when Ben's reputation... | |
| English poetry - 1916 - 792 pages
...was no subject of which any poet ever writ, but he would produce it much better done in Shakespeare; e touch of fire. He finds his fellow guilty of a skin...having power To enforce the wrong, for such a wort Jonson, never equalled them to him in their esteem: and in the last king's court, when Ben's reputation... | |
| John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1916 - 828 pages
...was no subject of which any poet ever writ, but he would produce it much better done in Shakespeare; and however others are now generally preferred before...lived, which had contemporaries with him, Fletcher and Jonson, never equalled them to him in their esteem: and in the last king's court, when Ben's reputation... | |
| Sir Henry Craik - English literature - 1917 - 648 pages
...was no subject of which any poet ever writ, but he would produce it much better done in Shakespeare ; and however others are now generally preferred before...lived, which had contemporaries with him, Fletcher and Jonson, never equalled them to him in their esteem : and in the last king's court, when Ben's reputation... | |
| Reinard Willem Zandvoort - Books - 1924 - 494 pages
...subject of which any poet ever wrote, but he would produce it much better treated of in Shakespeare ; and however others are now generally preferred before...lived, which had contemporaries with him Fletcher and Johnson, never equalled them to him in their esteem ; and in the last King's court, when Ben's ') Perhaps... | |
| John Dryden - 1921 - 332 pages
...was no subject of which any poet ever writ, but he would produce it much better done in Shakspeare; and however others are now generally preferred before...lived, which had contemporaries with him Fletcher ,nd Jonson, never equalled them to him in their esteem: and n the last king's court, when Ben's reputation... | |
| Jesse Franklin Bradley, Joseph Quincy Adams - 1922 - 492 pages
...was no subject of which any poet ever writ, but he would produce it much better done in Shakespeare; and however others are now generally preferred before...lived, which had contemporaries with him, Fletcher and Jonson, never equalled them to him in their esteem: and in the last King's court, when Ben's reputation... | |
| Edmund David Jones - Criticism - 1922 - 522 pages
...was no subject of which any poet ever wrote but he would produce it much better done in Shakespeare ; and however others are now generally preferred before...wherein he lived, which had contemporaries with him i Fletcher and Jonson, never equalled them to him in their esteem : and in the last king's court, when... | |
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