 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...  Simon and Schuster Crostics 116 - Page 54de Thomas H. Middleton - 1996 - 64 pagesAperçu limité - À propos de ce livre
 | Robert Chambers - 1849
...saw you ; for wit is like a rest Held up at tennis, which men do the best, With the best gamesters : subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest,... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1849 - 560 pages
...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 eubtile flame, Ae if that ever)' one from whence they came Hod meant to put his whole wit in a jest,... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1850
...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 subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest,... | |
 | 1851
...Donne, at that resort of " good fellows" of the olden time — to have seen those things (l Done nt 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 jeet."... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 345 pages
...his thoughts wander, in his letter to Jonson, from the country : . . —What things have we seen Doue at the Mermaid ! heard words that have been So nimble, and so rill! of subtle flame, As if that every one from whom they came, Had meant to put his whole wit in... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 558 pages
...like a rest Held up at Tennis, which men do the best With the best gamesters. What things havu we leeo Done at the ' Mermaid !' heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtile flame, As if that every one, from whom they came, Had meant to pnt his whole wit in a jest,... | |
 | Guildhall Library (London, England), Henry Benjamin Hanbury Beaufoy, Jacob Henry Burn - 1853 - 237 pages
..."the immortal Ben," from Beaumont, who died ere he had reached his thirtieth year, in March, 1616 : " 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 mean'd to put his whole wit in a jest."... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1853
...of reverence and 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 Bo nimble, and so full of subtle name, As if that every one from whom they came Had meant to put his... | |
 | J. PAYNE COLLIER - 1853
...respect." Of what passed at these many assemblies Beaumont thus speaks, addressing Ben Jonson :— nts. Por. I pray you tarry : pause a day or two. Before you hazard ; for, subtle flame, Had mean - "What things have we seen As if that every one from whom they came iant to... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1853
...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 s- 1 nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put... | |
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