| Robert Demaus - English literature - 1860 - 580 pages
...poet ever writ, but he would produce it much better done in Shakspere ; and however others are now2 generally preferred before him, yet the age wherein...lived, which had contemporaries with him, Fletcher and Jonson, never equalled them to him in their esteem. And in the last king's3 court, when Ben's reputation... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 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... | |
| Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 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... | |
| Friedrich Otto Froembling - 1866 - 438 pages
...inter viburna cupressi. 2 In the degenerate ages after the Restoration. 98 SHAKSPEARE AND BEN JONSON. before 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 1 court, when Ben's reputation... | |
| Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 pages
...was 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...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... | |
| Charles Knight - 1868 - 578 pages
...'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... | |
| Book - English literature - 1868 - 168 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... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...writ (wrote) but he would produce it much better treated in Shakspeare ; and, however others are now 3 generally preferred before him, yet the age wherein he lived, which had [as] contemporaries (1) "The prose of Dryden may rank with the beat in the English language. It is... | |
| Class-book - Literature - 1869 - 344 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... | |
| sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 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... | |
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