 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 394 pages
...subject of •which ant; poet ever writ, but he would produce it MT-CH BETTER done by 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 [that of Charles I,]... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1812 - 380 pages
...VMSno subject of which any poet ever writ, but he would produce it MUCH BETTER done by 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 [that of Charles... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...subject of which t any poet ever wrote, but he would produce it much ^ better treated in Shakspeare; and however others are now generally preferred before...lived, which had contemporaries with him Fletcher and Jouson, never equalled )fl them to him in their esteem. And in the last king's court, when Ben's reputation... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1812 - 372 pages
...viat no subject of vjhich any poet ever writ, but he would produce it MUCH BETTER done by Shatspcare ; 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 [that of Charles... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1813 - 546 pages
...which any poet ever writ, but he would produce it much better done in Shakspeare ; and however qthers are now generally preferred before him, yet the age wherein he lived) which bad contemporaries with him, Fletcher and .Tonsovi, never equalled them to him in their esteem : and... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1821 - 442 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 676 pages
...was no subject of which any poet ever writ, but he would produce it MUCH BETTER done by 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 [that of Charles... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 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... | |
 | Literature - 1826 - 450 pages
...raifehimfelf as high above the reft of Poets, Quantum lenta folent inter vibuma cuprciTi. The confideration of this made Mr. Hales of Eaton fay, that there was...wherein he lived, which had contemporaries with him 3 A 4 Fletcher Fletcher and Jonfon, never equalled them to him in their efteem. And in the laft king's... | |
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Jonson, never equalled them to him in their esteem, and in the last king's court, when Ben's reputation was at highest, Sir John Suckling, and with him the greater part of the courtiers, set our Shakespeare far above him. 
