| Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - English prose literature - 1925 - 1124 pages
...subject of which any poet ever writ 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 reputation... | |
| John Dryden, William Congreve, Samuel Johnson, Walter Scott - Authors, English - 1925 - 230 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 him, yet the age wherein he lived, which had con30 temporaries with him Fletcher and Jonson, never equalled them to him in their esteem : and in... | |
| John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1926 - 928 pages
...was no subject of which any poet ever writ, but he would produce it much better done in Shakespeare; e _ Jonson, never equalled them to him in their esteem: and in the last king's court, when Ben's reputation... | |
| Louis Wann - American essays - 1926 - 564 pages
...of, necessary and produce it much better done in Shakeuseful to be known upon this subject. speare ; and however others are now generally preferred before him, yet the age wherein he lived, which had contempora45 ries with him, Fletcher and Jonson, never JOHN DRYDEN (1631-1700) equaled them to him... | |
| Margreta de Grazia, Stanley Wells - Drama - 2001 - 352 pages
...Dramatic Poesy' ( 1 668): . . . and however others are now generally preferred before him [Shakespeare), 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... | |
| Paul Hammond - Drama - 2002 - 484 pages
...subject of which any poet ever writ, 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 Jonson, never equalled them to him in their esteem. And in the last King's court, when Ben's reputation... | |
| John Dryden - English literature - 2003 - 1024 pages
...subject of which any poet ever writ, 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 Jonson, never equalled them to him in their esteem, and in the last king's court, when Ben's reputation... | |
| S. L. Edwards - English prose literature - 1953 - 220 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... | |
| John Dryden - 312 pages
...subject of which any poet ever writ, 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 Jonson, never equalled them to him in their esteem, and in the last king's court, when Ben's reputation... | |
| Questions and answers - 1903 - 846 pages
...subject of which any poet ever writ, 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 reputation... | |
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