 | 1798 - 432 pagina’s
...be had a ftill better of his converfation : for he faidj that " if he had burnt all. he wrote, and printed all he fpoke, he would have had more wit and humour than any other poet." Shadwell, as appears from Rochefter's " Seffion of the poets," was a great favourite with Otway, and... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1816 - 538 pagina’s
...opinion of his conversation that he said " if Shadwell had burnt all he wrote, and printed all he spoke, he would have had more wit and humour than any other poet." Considering Rochester's character, this, we sire afraid, confirms the account of some contemporary... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1816 - 536 pagina’s
...opinion of his conversation that he said " if Shadwell had burnt all he wrote, and printed all he spoke, he would have had more wit and humour than any other poet." Considering Rochester's character, this, we are afraid, confirms the account of some contemporary writers,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1816 - 536 pagina’s
...opinion of his conversation that he said " if Shadwell had burnt all he wrote, and printed all he spoke, he would have had more wit and humour than any other poet." Considering Rochester's character, this, we are afraid, confirms the account of some contemporary writers,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1832 - 342 pagina’s
...man of talent ; Rochester said of him, that if he had burnt all he wrote, and printed all he spoke, he would have had more wit and humour than any other poet. In comedy, he as much excelled Dryden in observat1on of nature, and delineation of character, as Dryden... | |
 | Englishmen - 1835 - 476 pagina’s
...; but Rochester has affirmed that " if Shaihvell had burnt all he wrote, and printed all he spoke, he would have had more wit and humour than any other poet." Shad well was a great favourite too with Otway. The plays of this dramatist are sufficiently imbued... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 478 pagina’s
...man of talent; Roches'er said of him. that if he had hurnt all he wrote, and printed sll he spoke, he would have had more wit and humour than any other poet. ln comedy, he as much excelled Dryden in ohservation of nature, and delineation of character, as Dcyden... | |
 | 1838 - 406 pagina’s
...of conversation, by observing, that if Shadwell had burned all he wrote, and printed all he spoke, he would have had more wit and humour than any other poet. He produced seventeen plays in twenty-four years. One of his plays was written in a month, and his last... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1848 - 452 pagina’s
...and died 1692. Rochester said of him, that if he had burnt all he wrote, and printed all he spoke, he would have had more wit and humour than any other poet. He left seventeen plays, besides other poems.* HENRY VAUGHAN. [Born, 1621. Died, 1695.] . HENRY VAUGHAN... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1848 - 468 pagina’s
...and died 1692. Rochester said of him, that if he had burnt all he wrote, and printed all he spoke, he would have had more wit and humour than any other poet. He left seventeen plays, besides other poems.* HENRY VAUGHAN. [Born, 1621. Died, 1695.] HENRY VAUGHAN... | |
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His anecdote was received in silence ; and after inquiring, to no purpose, ' Why nobody laughed ?' he departed in anger. ' Rochester,' says Mr. Forster, 'observed of Shadwell, that if he had burnt all he wrote, and printed all he spoke, he would have... 
