 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 591 páginas
...SILENT WOMAN ; all which persons have several concernments of their own, yet are all used by the poet, to the conducting of the main design to perfection....wit and acuteness of fancy in it than in any of Ben Jonson 's. Besides, that he has here described the conversation of gentlemen in the persons of True*... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 634 páginas
...SILENT WOMAN ; all which persons have several concernments of their own, yet arc all used by the poet, to the conducting of the main design to perfection....waste time in commending the writing of this play j but I will give you my opinion, that there is more wit and acutcness of fancy in it than in any of... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1808 - 432 páginas
...Silent Woman ;" all which persons have several concernments of their own, yet are all used by the poet, to the conducting of the main design to perfection....waste time in commending the writing of this play; but 1 will give you my opinion, that there is more wit and acuteness of fancy in it than in any of Ben... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 518 páginas
...Silent Woman ; all which persons have several concernments of their own, yet are all used by the poet, to the conducting of the main design to perfection....wit and acuteness of fancy in it than in any of Ben Jonsoa's. Beside*, that he has here described the conversation of gentlemen in the persons of Trucwit,... | |
 | John Dryden, John Mitford - 1836 - 488 páginas
...Silent Woman;" all which persons have several concernments of their own, yet are all used by th« poet to the conducting of the main design to perfection....wit and acuteness of fancy in it than in any of Ben Joiison's. Besides, that he has here described the conversation of gentlemen, in the persons of True-... | |
 | John Dryden, John Mitford - 1844 - 536 páginas
...of the main design to perfection. I shall notwastr time in commending the writing of this play : hut I will give you my opinion, that there is more wit...fancy in it than in any of Ben Jonson's. Besides, thal he had here descrihed the conversation of gentlemen, in the persons of True- Wit and his friends,... | |
 | 1858 - 516 páginas
...Jonson's in which we seem to be associating with real living people ; and Dryden said truly of it, that " there is more wit and acuteness of fancy in it than in any of Ben Jonson's." It does not carry much of praise to modern ears, to say that the time occupied by the events of the... | |
 | 1858 - 516 páginas
...Jonson's in which we seem to be associating with real living people ; and Dryden said truly of it, that " there is more wit and acuteness of fancy in it than in any of Ben Jonson's." It does not carry much of praise to modern ears, to eay that the time occupied by the events of the... | |
 | John Dryden - 1859 - 482 páginas
...perfection. I shall not wastr lime in commending the writing of this play ; hut I will give you in v opinion, that there is more wit and acuteness of fancy...in any of Ben Jonson's. Besides, that he has here deserihed the oonversation of gentlemen, in the persons of True- Wit and his friends, with more gayety,... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1875 - 550 páginas
...Silent Woman ; all which persons have several concernments of their own, yet are all used by the poet, to the conducting of the main design to perfection....described the conversation of gentlemen in the persons of Truewit, and his friends, with more gaiety, air, and freedom, than in the rest of his comedies. For... | |
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Besides Morose, there are at least nine or ten different characters, and humours in The Silent Woman; all which persons have several concernments of their own, yet are all used by the poet to the conducting of the main design to perfection. I shall not... 
