 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - English literature - 1876 - 180 pages
...Jonson's hands, was the painting of that particular human nature which he saw in his own age ; and his characters are not men and women as they are, but...mastered by a special bias of the mind or humour. " The Manners, now called Humours, feed the Stage," says Jonson himself. Every Man in his Humour was followed... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1880 - 228 pages
...Jonson's hands, was the painting of that particular human nature which he saw in his own age ; and his characters are not men and women as they are, but...mastered by a special bias of the mind or. humour. " The Manners, now called Humours, feed the Stage," says Jonson himself. Every Man in his Humour was followed... | |
 | Brainerd Kellogg - American literature - 1882 - 492 pages
...they paint a good woman (two or three at most being excepted), she is beyond nature. The fact is, that the high art, which in Shakespeare sought to give...natural aspects, sank now into the baser art, which wished to excite, at any cost, the passions of the audience by representing human nature in unnatural... | |
 | Brainerd Kellogg - English literature - 1882 - 460 pages
...Jonson's hands was the painting of that particular human nature which he saw in his own age; and his characters are not men and women as they are, but...they are mastered by a special bias of the mind, or HUMOR. ' The Manners, now called Humors, feed the Stage,' says Jonson himself. Every Man in his Humor... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1888 - 236 pages
...Jonson's hands, was the painting of that particular human nature which he saw in his own age; and his characters are not men and women as they are, but...they are mastered by a special bias of the mind or Hitmour. " The Manners, now called Humours, feed the Stage," says Jonson himself. Every Man in his... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - English literature - 1900 - 264 pages
...Jonson's hands, was the painting of that particular human nature which he saw in his own age; and his characters are not men and women as they are, but...mastered by a special bias of the mind or Humour. "The Manners, now called Humours, feed the Stage," says Jonson himself. Every Alan in his Humour was followed... | |
 | Henry Woldmar Ruoff - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1908 - 862 pages
...Jonson's hands, was the painting of that particular human nature which he saw in his own age; and his characters are not men and women as they are, but...when they are mastered by a special bias of the mind. In Beaumont and Fletcher, the women are overdrawn and the men are base in thought. Shakespere's men... | |
 | Henry Woldmar Ruoff - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1916 - 936 pages
...Jonson's hands, was the painting of that particular human nature which he saw in his own age; and his characters are not men and women as they are, but...become when they are mastered by a special bias of *,he mind. In Beaumont and Fletcher, the women are overdrawn and the men are base in thought. Shakespere's... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1922 - 988 pages
...Jonson's hands, was the painting of that particular human nature which he saw in his own age; and his characters are not men and women as they are, but...when they are mastered by a special bias of the mind. In Beaumont and Fletcher, the women are overdrawn and the men are base in thought. Shakespere's men... | |
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... hands had been the painting of the whole of human nature, the painting of characters as they were built up by their natural bent, and by the play of circumstance upon them. The drama, in Ben Jonson's hands, was the painting of that particular human... 