 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1879 - 582 pages
...poet, but Shalcspeare the greater wit. Shakspeare was the Homer, or father, of our dramatic poots : that self-culture must vary with the individual. \\\- ".Discoveries,'' we have as many and profitable rules for perfecting the stage as any wherewith... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 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 ; I admire him, but I love Shakspeare. To conclnde of him : as he has given us the most correct play, so, in the precepts which he has laid down... | |
 | William Tegg - 1879 - 290 pages
..." 0 rare Ben Jonson." " Shakspeare," says Dryden, " 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." Of Jonsoii's poetry much is below mediocrity, but there are a few of his pieces which are polished... | |
 | David Masson - 1880 - 878 pages
...says Dryden, " the most learned and judicious " writer which any theatre ever had." Still further, " As he " has given us the most correct plays, so in...profitable rules for perfecting the stage as any wherewith LIFE OF MILTON AND HISTORY OF HIS TIS " the French can furnish us." By way of iletaile* tion, there... | |
 | Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 pages
...correct poet, but Shakspere the greater wit. Shakspere was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets : Jonson was the Virgil, the pattern of elaborate writing ; I admire him, but I love Shakspere. London after the Fire. Methinks already from this chymic flame,* I see a city of more precious... | |
 | David Masson - 1880 - 880 pages
...unparalleled greatness. " Shakespeare," he says, " 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/' Sufficiently orthodox on this point, Dryden intimates that, next to Shakespeare, for... | |
 | Short essays - 1885 - 208 pages
...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, but I love Shakespeare. To conclude of him, as he has given us the most correct plays, so in the precepts which... | |
 | 1888 - 576 pages
...poet, but Shakespeare the greater wit. Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatick poets ; Jonson was the Virgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare. — (Of Dramatich Poesie, an Essay.) SAMUEL PEPYS, b. 1632, d. 1705. all the books of... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - 1890 - 730 pages
...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...precepts which he has laid down in his* " Discoveries," 16 we have as many and profitable rules for perfecting the stage, as any wherewith the French can furnish... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - 1891 - 728 pages
...poet, but Shakespeare the greater wit.15 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... | |
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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,... 
