 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 life.  The Irish penny magazine - Seite 1111833Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1841 - 744 Seiten
...Jonson. ' 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 whom they came Had meant to put his whole wit ina jest !' Travelling by the swift power of imagination, we looked in at Wilts and Button's ; beheld... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1841 - 710 Seiten
...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 at ll'illx... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1841 - 918 Seiten
...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, And had resolv'd to live a fool the rest Of his dull life ; then when there hath been thrown Wit able enough... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1843 - 970 Seiten
...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 in a jest," &c. : For the expression "wit-combats," in this interesting passage, we must refer to Fuller, who.... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1843 - 690 Seiten
...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 a jest," &c. ; For the expression "wit-combats," in this interesting passage, we must lo Fuller, who, describing... | |
 | Francis Beaumont - 1843 - 114 Seiten
...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 resolv'd to live a fool the rest Of his dull life ; then when there hath been thrown Wit able enough... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1843 - 566 Seiten
...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, And had resolv'd to live a fool the rest Of his dull life ; then when there hath been thrown Wit able enough... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1844 - 600 Seiten
...— ." 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 whom...they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest." The Mitre, in Fleet Street, seems to have been another tavern where the wits and poets of the day hilariously... | |
 | Richard H. Horne - 1844 - 356 Seiten
...SYDNEY SMITH, ALBANY FONBLANQUE, AND DOUGLAS JEKEOLD. " Hard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whom...they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest." BEAUUOKT. " His fine wit Makes such a wound, the knife is lost in it." SHELLEY. « ' I shall talk nothing... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 598 Seiten
...— •" 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 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 man-of-war: Master Jonson, like the... | |
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