 | Joseph Angus - English literature - 1880 - 726 pages
...was no subject of which any poet ever writ, but he would pro dace it much better done in Shakspere ; and however others are now generally preferred before him, yet the age wherein hs lived, which had contemporaries with him, Fletcher and Jonson, never equalled them to him in their... | |
 | George Saintsbury - Authors, English - 1881 - 216 pages
...was no subject of which any poet ever writ but he would produce it much better done in Shakespeare; and however others are now generally preferred before...lived, which had contemporaries with him, Fletcher and Jonson, never equalled them to him in their esteem : and in the last king's court, when Ben's reputation... | |
 | Max Moltke, Shakespeare-museum - 1881 - 344 pages
...was no subject of which any poet ever writ, but he would produce it much better done in Shakespeare ; and however others are now generally preferred before...lived, which had contemporaries with him Fletcher and Jonson, never equalled them to him in their esteem. And in the last King's court, when Ben's reputation... | |
 | Short essays - 1885 - 208 pages
...subject of which any poet ever wrote, but he would produce it much better treated in Shakespeare ; and however others are now generally preferred before...lived, which had contemporaries with him, Fletcher and Jonson, never equalled them to him in their esteem. And in the last king's court, when Ben's reputation... | |
 | John Dryden - Drama - 1889 - 176 pages
...writ, but he would produce it much better done1 in Shakspeare ; and however others are now generally f preferred before him, yet the age wherein he lived, which had contemporaries with him Fletcher and Johnson, never equalled them to him in their esteem : and in the last king's court, when Ben's reputation... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - English literature - 1891 - 728 pages
...was no subject of which any poet ever writ, but he would produce it much better done in Shakespeare ; and however others are now generally preferred before...lived, which had contemporaries with him, Fletcher and Jonson, never equalled them to him in their esteem : and in the last king's court, when Ben's reputation... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1892 - 428 pages
...agreed on for the dispute poet ever writ, but he would produce it much better done* in Shakespeare ; and however others are now generally preferred before...lived, which had contemporaries with him, Fletcher and Jonson, never equalled them to him in their esteem : and in the last King's court, when Ben's reputation... | |
 | John Dryden - 1892 - 428 pages
...agreed on for the dispute f poet ever writ, but he would produce it much better) done* in Shakespeare; and however others are now generally preferred before...lived, which had contemporaries with him, Fletcher and Jonson, never equalled them to him in their esteem : and in the last King's court, when Ben's reputation... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - Literary Collections - 1894 - 674 pages
...was no subject of which any poet ever writ, but he would produce it much better done in Shakespeare ; and however others are now generally preferred before...lived, which had contemporaries with him, Fletcher and Jonson, never equalled them to him in their esteem : and in the last king's court, when Ben's reputation... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1894 - 648 pages
...was no subject of which any poet ever writ, but he would produce it much better done in Shakespeare ; and however others are now generally preferred before...lived, which had contemporaries with him, Fletcher and Jonson, never equalled them to him in their esteem : and in the last king's court, when Ben's reputation... | |
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Jonson, never equalled them to him in their esteem, and in the last king's court, when Ben's reputation was at highest, Sir John Suckling, and with him the greater part of the courtiers, set our Shakespeare far above him. 
