| William Shakespeare - 1872 - 480 pàgines
...dramatic poetry, which at that time was very low, and his plays took well. He was a handsome, well-shaped man, very good company, and of a very ready and pleasant smooth wit. Ben Jonson and he did gather humours of men daily wherever they came." This natural inclination, fed... | |
| Charles Knight - 1843 - 566 pàgines
...dramatic poetry, which at that time was very low, and his plays took well. He was a handsome, well-shaped man, very good company, and of a very ready and pleasant smooth wit. The humour of the constable, in A Midsummer-Night's Dream, he happened to take at Grendon,* in Bucks, which... | |
| David Masson - 1856 - 528 pàgines
...dramatic poetry, which at that time was very low ; and his plays took well. He was a handsome, well-shaped man ; very good . company, and of a very ready and pleasant smooth wit. The humour of the constable in ' A Midsummer Night's Dream,' he happened to take at Grendon, in Bucks,... | |
| David Masson - 1856 - 494 pàgines
...dramatic poetry, which at that time was very low ; and his plays took well. He was a handsome, well-shaped man ; very good company, and of a very ready and pleasant smooth wit. The humour of the constable in ' A Midsummer Night's Dream,' he happened to take at Grendon, in Bucks,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1858 - 762 pàgines
...of Shakespeare ; and he sums up our great poet's physical and moral endowments in two lines : — " He was a handsome well- shaped man, very good company, and of a very ready, and pleasant, and smooth wit." We have every reason to suppose that this is a correct description of his personal... | |
| 1907 - 1282 pàgines
...Shakespeare to his supreme position in English literature. " Every age," remarks Professor Raleigh, " has its own difficulties in the appreciation of Shakespeare....play-going public. There was no one to make an idol of him. The newly sprung class to which he belonged was despised and disliked by the majority of the decent... | |
| Samuel Neil - 1861 - 140 pàgines
...is a pleasure in knowing, as we do, on the authority of Aubrey, that "he was a handsome, well-made man; very good company, and of a very ready and pleasant, smooth wit." Fuller's fancy picture was probably founded on good information, and is reliable so far, especially... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1865 - 436 pàgines
..."imfailiug candour." Aubrey, in his plain, prosaic way, says, — " He was a handsome, well-shaped man, very good company, and of a very ready and pleasant smooth wit." His "sugered sonnets among his friends," as Meres calls them, seem to have been circulated and much... | |
| 1865 - 792 pàgines
...dramatic poetry, which at that time was very low, and his plays took well. He was a handsome, well-shaped man, very good company, and of a very ready and pleasant smooth wit. He was wont to go to his native country once a year. I think I have been told that ho left 2 or ¿90¿.... | |
| 1871 - 970 pàgines
...poetry, which at that time was very low, and his plays took well. He was a handsome, •well-shaped man, very good company, and of a very ready and pleasant smooth wit." Are we not too apt, in our wonder at the marvellously creative genius he displayed in the composition... | |
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