...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...

...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...

...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,...

...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,...

...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...

...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...

...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...

..."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...

...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¿....

...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...