 | Robert Conger Pell - 1857 - 436 sivua
...Beaumont alludes with so much affection in his letter to the old poet, written from the country : — 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. Temple... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - 1857 - 444 sivua
...Beaumont alludes with so much affection in his letter to the old poet, written from the country : — What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard words that have been So nimble and BO fall of snbtle flame, As if that every one from whom they came Hod meant to put his whole wit in... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1858 - 432 sivua
...thus alluding to them, when writing from the country to his friend and fellow-labourer, Fletcher : 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, And... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1858 - 762 sivua
...respect." Of what passed at these many assemblies Beaumont thus speaks, addressing Ben 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 camo Had meant to put bis whole wit in a jest." Mr.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1859 - 494 sivua
...which men do the best With the best gamesters. What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! Hard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtile flame, As if that every one from whence they camr. Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, A nd had resolved to live a fool the rest * So in Rochester's... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 714 sivua
...Shakspcure, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, and the other literary celebrities of those days.2 " 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,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 554 sivua
...Methinks the little wit I had, is lost, Since I 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 ! Hard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whom... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1860 - 392 sivua
...most. Methinks the little wit I had is lost Since I saw you ; for wit is like a rest Held up at tennis, which men do the best, With the best gamesters : what...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,... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1860 - 370 sivua
...opportunity of looking into minds as various as they were original. Beaumont has described the surface : — "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,... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1860 - 576 sivua
..." Methinks thu little wit I had is lost Since I 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 I heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtile flame, As if that every one from whence... | |
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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... 
