...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...

...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,...

...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,...

...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,...

...their talk, we learn that ' his Plays took well ' ; and that he was ' a handsome well shaped man ; very good company, and of a very ready and pleasant smooth wit." The easy-going and casual critics who were privileged to know him in life, regarded him chiefly as...

...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...

...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...

...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...