 | John Dryden - 1800 - 624 σελίδες
...obsolete,1 and Ben Jonson's wit comes short of theirs. As for Jensen, to whose character I am now .arrived, if we look upon him while he was himself) (for his...but his dotages,) I think | him the most learned and judicious writer which lany theatre ever had. He was a most severe judge £»f himself, as well as... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 634 σελίδες
...and Ben Jonson's w'tt comes short of theirs. — As for Jonson, to whose character I am now arrived, if we look upon him while he was himself, (for his...but his dotages,) I think him the most learned and judicious writer which any theatre ever had. He was a most severe judge of himself, as well as others.... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 591 σελίδες
...theirs. As for Jonson, to whose character I am now arrived, if we look upon him while he was himselfj (for his last plays were but his dotages,) I think him the most learned and judicious writer which any theatre ever had. He was a most severe judge of himself, as well as others.... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 548 σελίδες
...Jonson '« wit comes short of theirs. Ben. Jonson. As for Jonson, to whose character I am now ar' rived, if we look upon him while he was himself, (for his...but his dotages,) I think him the most learned and judicious writer which any theatre ever had. He was a most severe judge of himself, as well as others.... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 σελίδες
...for Jonson, to whose character I am now ar; rived, if we look upon him while he was himself, (for bis last plays were but his dotages,) I think him the most learned and judicious writer which any theatre ever had. He was a most severe judge of himself, as well as others.... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 1152 σελίδες
...for Jonson, to whose character I am now arrived, if we look upon him while he was himself, (for liis last plays were but his dotages,) I think him the most learned and judicious writer which any theatre ever had. He was a most severe judge of himself, as well as others.... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 432 σελίδες
...obsolete, and Ben Jonson's wit comes short of theirs. As for Jonson, to whose character I am now arrived, if we look upon him while he was himself, (for his...but his dotages,) I think him the most learned and judicious writer which any theatre ever had. He was a most severe judge of himself, as well as others.... | |
 | Manual - 1809 - 288 σελίδες
...obsolete, and Ben Jonson's wit comes short of theirs. As for Jonson, to whose character I am no>r arrived, if we look upon him while he was himself, (for his...but his dotages) I think him the most learned and judicious writer which any theatre ever had. He was a most severe judge ot'himself, as well as others.... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 430 σελίδες
...Jonson had not then written even a poem of so serious a cast as to be entitled to that appellaiion. We shall here add a character of Ben Jonson as sketched...but his dotages), I think " him the most learned and judir " cious writer which any theatre '*' ever had. He was a most severe -JON ' judge of himself as... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 426 σελίδες
...so serious a cast as to be entitled to that appellation. We shall here add a character of Ben Jonsou as sketched by Dryden: " If we look upon him while...but his dotages), I think him the most learned and judicious writer which .any theatre 'evey had. He was a most severe Jt ON judge of himself as -well... | |
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As for Jonson, to whose character I am now arrived, if we look upon him while he was himself (for his last plays were but his dotages), I think him the most learned and judicious writer which any theatre ever had. He was a most severe judge of himself,... 
