 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
 | George Henry Townsend - 1857 - 122 pages
...of the combats between the wits of those days, so charmingly described by Beaumont in his letter to Jonson : — ' What things have we seen Done at the...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 ! '... | |
 | George Henry Townsend - 1857 - 122 pages
...of the combats between the wits of those days, so charmingly described by Beaumont in his letter to Jonson :— ' What things have we seen Done at the...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... | |
 | 1857
...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... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1857 - 376 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 subtle flame, As if that every one, from whom they came, Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest,... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - 1857 - 416 pages
...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1858
...of reverence and respect." Of what passed at these many assemblies Beaumont thus speaks, addressing Ben Jonson : — " What things have we seen Done at...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.... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1858
...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... | |
 | David Masson - 1859
...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,... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1860
...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,... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1860
...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,... | |
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