| Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - English literature - 1869 - 420 pages
...writ, but he would produce i( much better done in Shakspeare; and however others are row gene*' ally preferred before him, yet the age wherein he lived, which had contemporaries with him, Fletcher and Jonson, never equalled tlieip to him in their esteem; and in the last king's court, when Ben's reputation... | |
| English prose literature - 1872 - 556 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 and Jonson, never equalled them to him in their esteem. And in the last king's court, when Ben's reputation... | |
| English literature - 1874 - 274 pages
...was no subject of which any poet ever writ, but he would produce it better treated in Shakspeare ; 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... | |
| P. F. Aiken - 1876 - 454 pages
...no subject of which any poet ever 'writ, but he would produce it much better done in ' Shakspere ; and however others are now generally ' preferred before him, yet the age wherein he lived, ' which had cotemporaries with him, Fletcher and ' Jonson, never equalled them to him, in their esteem ; ' and... | |
| Peter Freeland Aiken - 1876 - 468 pages
...no subject of which any poet ever "writ, but he would produce it much better done in " Shakspere ; and however others are now generally " preferred before him, yet the age wherein he lived, " which had cotemporaries with him, Fletcher and " Jonson, never equalled them to him, in their esteem ; " and... | |
| Hermann Ulrici - 1876 - 572 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... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - Authors - 1879 - 582 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 and Jonson, never equalled them to him in their esteem. And in the last king's court, when Ben's reputation... | |
| Robert Chambers - English literature - 1879 - 428 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 and Jonson, never equalled them to him in their esteem. And in the last king's court, when Ben's reputation... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - Authors - 1879 - 576 pages
...was no subject of which any poet ever writ but he would produce it much better done in Shakspeare: Ԗ ~ ?d G7 ev k Z; o\ Y ߡ 3o %㫯 Z О&9f : < h n |6 jAh %ʢ M ~_$W w Fleteher and Jonson, never equalled them to him in their esteem. And in the last king's court, when... | |
| Horace Hills Morgan - English literature - 1880 - 474 pages
...was no subject of which any poet ever writ, but he could produce it much better done in Shakespeare ; and however others are now generally preferred before him, yet the age wherein he 20 lived, which had contemporaries with him, .Fletcher and Jonson, never equalled them to him in their... | |
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