 What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one (from whence they came) Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull...  Essays and Reviews - Seite 31von Edwin Percy Whipple - 1861Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1841 - 710 Seiten
...Beaumont in his letter to Jonson. " What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words (hat hare been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whom they came Had meant to pat his whole wit in a jest ! " Travelling by the swift power of imagination, we looked in... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1841 - 378 Seiten
...With the best gamesters. What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! Hard words that have been Bo nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whom they enmo Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest. And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull... | |
 | Francis Beaumont - 1843 - 114 Seiten
...witcombats0", in which, to the delight of the company, Shakespeare and Jonson would frequently engage ; " What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard...so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolv'd to live a fool the rest... | |
 | Francis Beaumont - 1846 - 556 Seiten
...saw you ; for wit is like a rest ° Held up at tennis, which men do the best With the best gamesters. What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ' ! heard...have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, 1 leys] ie bows. • vie are all equal every whit, &c.] Seward, at Sympson's suggestion, pointed the... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1843 - 566 Seiten
...saw you ; for wit is like a rest Held up at tennis, which men do the best With the best gamesters : what things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtile flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1843 - 690 Seiten
...them, Beaumont fondly lets his thoughts wander, in his letter to Jonson, from the country: — -- " What things have we seen, Done at the MERMAID ! heard words that have been So nimble, and so lull of subtle flame, As i Г that every one from whom they came, Had meant to put his whole wit in... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1843 - 970 Seiten
...to them, Beaumont fondly lets his thoughts wander, in his letter to Jonson, from the country: — " What things have we seen, Done at the MERMAID ! heard words that have been So nimble, and ко full of subtle llame, As if that every one from whom they came. Had meant to put his whole wit... | |
 | Patrick Fraser Tytler - 1844 - 424 Seiten
...to them, Beaumont fondly lets his thoughts wander, in his letter to Jonson from the country, — " What things have we seen Done at the MERMAID! heard...flame, As if that every one from whom they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest." In a tract, by Thomas Middleton, quoted by Mr Collier in his... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1844 - 600 Seiten
...respect." Of what passed at these many assemblies Beaumont thus speaks, addressing Ben Jonson : — ." What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard...flame, As if that every one from whom they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest." The Mitre, in Fleet Street, seems to have been another tavern... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 598 Seiten
...respect.'" Of what passed at these many assemblies Beaumont thus speaks, addressing Ben Jonson : — •" What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard...flame, As if that every one from whom they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest." " which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English... | |
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