 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 634 pages
...correct poet, but Shakspearc the greater wit. Shakspcare was the Homer, or father of our dramatick poets; Jonson was the Virgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakspcare. To conclude of him; as he has given us the most correct plays, so in the precepts which... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...the greater wit. Shakspeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets: Jonson was theVirgil,the pattern of elaborate writing: I admire him, but I...precepts which he has laid down in his " Discoveries," w« have as many and profitable rules for perfecting the stage, as any wherewith the French can furnish... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 432 pages
...poet, but Shakespeare the greater wit. * Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets ; Jonson was the Virgil, the pattern of elaborate writing ; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare. To conclude of him ; as he has given us the most correct plays, so in the precepts which... | |
 | Manual - 1809 - 288 pages
...pattern of elaborate writing ; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare. To conclude of him; as he bas given us the most correct plays, so in the precepts...profitable rules for perfecting the stage, as any with which the French can furnish us. * Wit, in the time of Dryden, was often used fox jeahw. ESSAY... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...correct poet, but Shakspeare the greater wit. Shakspeare was the Homer or father of our dramatic poets, Jonson was the Virgil, the pattern of elaborate writing;...admire him, but I love Shakspeare. To conclude of kim, as he has given us the most correct plays, so in the precepts which he has laid down in his discoveries,... | |
 | George Burnett - 1813 - 546 pages
...the greater wit. Shakspeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets; Jonson was theVirgil,the pattern of elaborate writing: I admire him, but I...of him ; as he has given us the most correct plays, ao, in the precepts which he has laid down in his " Discoveries," we have as many and profitable rules... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 538 pages
...wherein, though he learnedly followed their language, he did not enough comply with the idiom of ours. To conclude of him, as he has given us the most correct...laid down in his Discoveries, we have as many and as profitable rules for perfecting the stage, as any wherewith the French can furnish us." Dryden.... | |
 | 1845 - 816 pages
...poet, but 'Shakspeare the greater wit. Shakspeare was the Homer, or father, of our dramatic poets ; Jonson was the Virgil, the pattern of elaborate writing. I admire him, but I love Shakspeare. To conclnde of him, as he has given us the most correct plays, so, in the precepts which he has laid down... | |
 | 1821 - 404 pages
...poet, but Shakspeare the greater wit. Shakspeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatick poets ; Jonson was the Virgil, the pattern of elaborate writing ; I admire him, but I love Shakspeare." There is something in the tone of his remarks, here and in other places, which induces us to think,... | |
 | 1821 - 408 pages
...poet, but Shakspeare the greater wit. Shakspeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatick poets ; Jonson was the Virgil, the pattern of elaborate writing ; I admire him, but I love Shakspeare." There is something in the tone of his remarks, here and in other places, which induces us to think,... | |
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If I would compare him with Shakespeare, I must acknowledge him the more correct poet, but Shakespeare the greater wit. Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets; Jonson was the Virgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him,... 
