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 | Samuel Johnson - 1854
...our author ; and hither Beaumont 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 full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whom they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest !"... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, Leigh Hunt - 1855 - 363 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 subtile flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest.... | |
 | 1855
...to regale their leisure. Who does not know Beaumont's lines on this paragon of taverns ? . . . . " 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,... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, Leigh Hunt - 1855 - 363 pages
...for wit is like a rest Held up at tennis, which men do the best With the best gamesters. What thingc 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,... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1855 - 558 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, apd so full of subtile flame, As if that every one, from whom they came, Had meant to put his whole... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 358 pages
...ii. Sc. 3. Get money ; still get money, boy ; No matter by what means. FRANCIS BEAUMONT. 1585-1616. Letter to Ben Jonson. What things have we seen Done...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,... | |
 | John Selden - 1856
...as other trees are. Shakespeare and Jonson took place, thus alluded to by Beaumont in his letter to 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 in a jest. His... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1856 - 18 pages
...has read the lines froiu Beaumont to " rare Ben " on this inn, but they wiH ever bear repetition — 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.... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1856
...used to regale their leisure. Who does not know Beaumont's lines on this paragon of taverns? . . . . " 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,... | |
 | M. A. Thomson - 1856 - 287 pages
...the poet,f 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 Had meant to put his wit in a jest," &c. The... | |
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