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... BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER , BEN JONSON , FORD , AND MASSINGER . BEAUMONT and FLETCHER , with all their prodigious merits , appear to me the first writers who in some measure departed from the genuine tragic style of the age of Shakespear ...
... BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER , BEN JONSON , FORD , AND MASSINGER . BEAUMONT and FLETCHER , with all their prodigious merits , appear to me the first writers who in some measure departed from the genuine tragic style of the age of Shakespear ...
Page 250
... Beaumont and Fletcher constantly bring in equivocal sentiments and characters , as if to set them up to be debated by sophistical casuistry , or varnished over with the colours of poetical ingenuity . Or Shakespear may be said to cast ...
... Beaumont and Fletcher constantly bring in equivocal sentiments and characters , as if to set them up to be debated by sophistical casuistry , or varnished over with the colours of poetical ingenuity . Or Shakespear may be said to cast ...
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... Fletcher's genius ; and it is said also of Shakespear's . The style of the first act has certainly more weight , more abruptness , and more involution , than the general style of Fletcher , with fewer ... BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER , ETC.
... Fletcher's genius ; and it is said also of Shakespear's . The style of the first act has certainly more weight , more abruptness , and more involution , than the general style of Fletcher , with fewer ... BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER , ETC.
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| Title | The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, Volume 6 The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, Percival Presland Howe |
| Author | William Hazlitt |
| Editors | Alfred Rayney Waller, Arnold Glover |
| Publisher | J.M. Dent, 1931 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 16 Jul 2007 |
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