 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!  London - Sivu 372tekijä(t) Joseph Curtis Platt, George Lillie Craik - 1851Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1846 - 752 sivua
...a letter to Ben, gives his testimony to the brilliancy of the conversation, when he exclaims, — " 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 oae, from whom they came, Had put his whole wit in a jest." Jonson seems... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 sivua
...may perchance equivocate At selling of a horse, and that's the 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 beet gamesters : what things have we eeen Done at the Mermaid ; heard words that have been So nimble,... | |
 | Robert Folkestone Williams - 1847 - 342 sivua
...participated in such " exquisite fine fun," as he had ever found in beating of the watch. CHAPTER XXXIV. 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 !... | |
 | John Selden - 1847 - 404 sivua
...and Jonfon took place, thus alluded to by Beaumont in his letter to Jonfon : What things have we feen Done at the Mermaid ! Heard words that have been So nimble, and fo full of fubtle flame, As if that every one from whom they came Had meant to put his whole wit in... | |
 | John Selden - 1847 - 416 sivua
...and Jonfon took place, thus alluded to by Beaumont in his letter to Jonfon: What things have we feen Done at the Mermaid! Heard words that have been So nimble, and fo full of fubtle flame, As if that every one from whom they came Had meant to put his whole wit in... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1849 - 582 sivua
...some of the illustrious baud to whom the young dramatist refers : — " Methinks the little wit I had is lost Since I saw you ; for wit is like a rest Held...heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of eubtile flame, Ae if that ever)' one from whence they came Hod meant to put his whole wit in a jest,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1849 - 708 sivua
...may perchance equivocate At selling of a horse, and that's the most. Mi'tliinks the little wit I had is lost Since I saw you ; for wit is like a rest Held...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,... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1849 - 384 sivua
...a letter to Ben, gives his testimony to the brilliancy of the conversation, when he exclaims, — " 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 put his whole wit in a jest." i Jonson... | |
 | 1849 - 364 sivua
...Jonson, playful raillery, exalted by the power of genius, predominated over abstruse discussion : ' 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 Hud meant to put his wit in a jest.' What a... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1849 - 574 sivua
...some of the illustrious band to whom the young dramatist refers : — " Mcthinks the little wit I had is lost Since I saw you ; for wit is like a rest Held up at tennis, which men ilo the best With the best gamesters: what things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard words that... | |
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