 | Ben Jonson - 1616 - 418 pages
...Ben Jonson, Dryden (Works, ed. 1892, 15. 347) remarks: 'You seldom find him making love in any of his scenes, or endeavouring to move the passions; his...that he delighted most to represent mechanic people.' 5. D. At the rear of the Elizabethan stage was a balcony, with its own set of curtains that could be... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 624 pages
...strength to more advantage than any who preceded him. You eeldom find him making love in any of his (scenes, or endeavouring to move the passions ; his...sphere ; and in that he delighted most to represent 1 This observation, made only fifty years after the death of Shakspeare, shews how little he was studied... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 591 pages
...strength to more advantage than any who preceded him. You seldom find him making love in any of his scenes, or endeavouring to move the passions ; his...sphere ; and in that he delighted most to, represent * This observation, made only fifty years after the death of Shakspeare, shews how little he was studied... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 634 pages
...strength to more advantage than any •who preceded him. You seldom find him making Jove in any of his scenes, or endeavouring to move the passions; his...and saturnine to do it gracefully, especially when hq knew he came after those who had performed both to Buch an height. Humour was his proper sphere;... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...strength to more advantage than any who preceded him. You seldom find him making love in any of his scenes, or endeavouring to move the passions ; his...he came after those who had performed both to such a height. Humour was his proper sphere ; and in that he delighted most to represent mechanic people.... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 1152 pages
...strength to more advantage than any who preceded him. You seldom find him making love in any of his scenes, or endeavouring to move the passions ; his...he came after those who had performed both to such a height. Hnmorr was his proper sphere ; and in that he delighted most to represent mechanic people.... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 548 pages
...more advantage than any who preceded him. You seldom find him making love in any of his scenes, of endeavouring to move the passions ; his genius was...he came after those who had performed both to such a height. Humour was his proper sphere ; and in that he delighted most to represent mechanic people.... | |
 | Manual - 1809 - 288 pages
...them the public applause in the time of Dryden. VOL. I. M seldom find him making love in any of his scenes, or endeavouring to move the passions, his...saturnine to do it gracefully, especially when he came after those who performed both to such a height. Humour was his proper sphere, and in that he... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 426 pages
...strength to more advantage than any wb,o preceded him. You seldom find him making love in any of his scenes, or endeavouring to move the passions; his...he came after those who had performed both to such a height. Humour was his proper sphere, and in that he delighted most to represent mechanic people.... | |
 | David Erskine Baker - 1812 - 430 pages
...strength to more advantage than ' any who preceded him. You seldom find him making love ' in any of his scenes, or endeavouring to move the passions ; ' his...especially when he knew he ' came after those who had per' formed both to such a height. ' Humour was his proper sphere, ' and in that he delighted most... | |
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You seldom find him making Love in any of his Scenes, or endeavouring to move the Passions ; his genius was too sullen and saturnine to do it gracefully, especially when he knew he came after those who had performed both to such an height. 
