text: " Refining the courtship raillery and conversation of plays! We cannot perhaps truly say very much in praise of those qualities in Ben's comedies admirable as they are and superior in all respects a thousand times over to the best of Dryden's and of his contemporaries'; but wilfully blind indeed or worse must the man who could thus write have been to the matchless grace vivacity delicacy prodigality and poetry of Shakspeare's comedy which as far transcends all the happiest creations of other men's wit as the pervading pathos and sublimity of his tragedy all their happiest inspirations from the holy fountain of ennobling or pitying tears