 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
 | 1861
...mirth and jollity. It was to the meetings at the Mermaid that Beaumont probably alludes in his epistle to Ben Jonson : — What things have we seen Done...Mermaid ! heard words that have been So nimble and so fall of subtle flame, As if that every one from whom they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1861
...saw you ; for wit is like a rest Held up at tennis, which men do the best With the best gamesters.i 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,... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1861
...letter to Ben, gives his testimony to the brilliancy of the conversation, when he exclaims, — c( 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." Jonson seems... | |
 | John Wood Warter - 1861 - 220 pages
...were they that FRANCIS BEAUMONT remembered in his Letter to BEN JONSON : " What Things have we feer. Done at the Mermaid ! heard Words that have been So nimble, and fo full of fubtle Flame, As if that every One from whence they came Had meant to put his whole Wit... | |
 | John Wood Warter - 1861 - 220 pages
...were they that FRANCIS BEAUMONT remembered in his Letter to BEN JONSON : " 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 whence they came Had meant to put his whole Wit... | |
 | Francis Beaumont - 1862
...well аз the saturnine Ben Jonson, could be jocund at times and under excitement. " What thing« hare 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... | |
 | Alexander Smith - 1863 - 296 pages
...drollery, the repartee, the sage sentences, the lightning gleams of wit, the thunder-peals of laughter. " What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ? Heard words that hath been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant... | |
 | 1856
...Cheapside, where Beaumont and Fletcher, Raleigh, Jonson, and Shakespeare held their divine symposia. " 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 pnt his whole wit in a jest,... | |
 | William Harvey - 1864 - 362 pages
...wine, Which is the Mermaid's now, but shall be mine." "What things have we seen Gifford's " Jomon." Done at the Mermaid ! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that ev'ry one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1865
...Fuller says there were many witcombats between Shakespeare and Jonson; and of which Beaumont writes, — "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 soul in a jest. We... | |
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