| Nathan Drake - Dramatists, English - 1828 - 522 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... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1828 - 520 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 - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...was no subject of which any poet ever writ, hut he would produce it much better done in Shakspeare ; ed gild the glowing pole ; O'er the dark trees a yellow lie lived, which had contemporaries with him Fletcher and Jonson, never equalled them to him in their... | |
| John Dryden, John Mitford - English literature - 1836 - 488 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 Phillips Newman - English language - 1837 - 334 pages
...was no subject of which any poet ever writ, but he would pro-duce 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. " Of Chaucer, he says, as he is the father of English... | |
| Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1837 - 334 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. " Of Chaucer, he says, as he is the father of English... | |
| John Dryden, John Mitford - 1844 - 536 pages
...would produce it much hetter done in Shakspeare ; and however others are now generally preferred hefore him, yet the age wherein he 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... | |
| Scotland - 1845 - 842 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... | |
| England - 1845 - 816 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 him, yet the age wherein he lived, which bad contemporaries with him, Fletcher, and Jonson, never equalled them to him in their esteem ; and... | |
| John Wilson - Criticism - 1846 - 360 pages
...of which any poet ever writ, but he would produce it much better done in Shakspeare ; and, howover others are now generally preferred before him, yet the age wherein he lived, which had cotemporaries with him, Fletcher and Jonson, never equaled them to him in their esteem ; and in the... | |
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