 Jonson's: the reason is because there is a certain gaiety in their comedies, and pathos in their more serious plays which suits generally with all men's humours. Shakespeare's language is likewise a little obsolete, and Ben Jonson's wit comes short of...  Notes and Queries - Page 3361903Full view - About this book
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 432 pages
...of mind, in an individual. See Vol. X. p. 3yO\ 456. -pathos in their more serious plays, which suits generally with all men's humours. Shakespeare's language is likewise a little obsolete, and Ben Jonson's wit comes short of theirs. As for Jonson, to whose character I am now arrived, if we look... | |
 | Manual - Essays - 1809 - 288 pages
...admire and imitate the gaiety in their comedies, and pathos in their more serious plays, which suits generally with all men's humours. Shakespeare's language is likewise a little obsolete, and Ben Jonson's wit comes short of theirs. As for Jonson, to whose character I am no>r arrived, if we look... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1821 - 442 pages
...of mind, in an individual. See Vol. X. p. 396. 456. pathos in their more serious plays, which suits generally with all men's humours. Shakespeare's language is likewise a little obsolete, and Ben Jonson's wit comes short of theirs. As for Jonson, to whose character I am now arrived, if we look,... | |
 | 1873 - 808 pages
...because there is a certain gaiety in their comedies, and pathos in their more serious plays, which suits generally with all men's humours. Shakespeare's language is likewise a little obsolete, and Ben Jonson's wit comes short of theirs.' Frank. It is very comforting, sir, to find tJif Lest holding up... | |
 | 1873 - 852 pages
...because there is a certain gaiety in their comedies, and pathos in their more serious plays, which suits generally with all men's humours. Shakespeare's language is likewise a little obsolete, and Ben Jonson's wit comes short of theirs.' Frank. It is very comforting, sir, to find the best holding up... | |
 | Books and bookselling - 1880 - 918 pages
...because there is a certain gaiety in their comedies and pathos in their more serious plays which suits generally with all men's humours. Shakespeare's language is likewise a little obsolete, and Ben Jonson's wit comes short of theirs." Further, in his " Defence of the Epilogue," a postscript to his... | |
 | John Dryden - Drama - 1889 - 176 pages
...and pathos in their more serious plays, which suits generally with all 15 men's humours. Shakspeare's language is likewise a little obsolete, and Ben Johnson's wit comes short of theirs. As for Johnson, to whose character I am now arrived, if we look upon him while he was himself, 20 (for... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - English literature - 1891 - 728 pages
...because there is a certain gaiety in their comedies, and pathos in their more serious plays, which suits generally with all men's humours. Shakespeare's language is likewise a little obsolete, and Ben Jonson's wit comes short of theirs. As for Jonson, to whose character I am now arrived, if we look... | |
 | John Dryden - 1892 - 428 pages
...because there is a certain gaiety in their comedies, and pathos in their more serious plays, which suits generally with all men's humours. Shakespeare's language is likewise a little obsolete, and Ben Jonson's wit comes short of theirs. As for Jonson, to whose character I am now arrived, if we look... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1892 - 428 pages
...because there is a certain gaiety in their comedies, and pathos in their more serious plays, which suits generally with all men's humours. Shakespeare's language is likewise a little obsolete, and Ben Jonson's wit comes short of theirs. As for Jonson, to whose character I am now arrived, if we look... | |
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