 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
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 480 pages
...place. POPE. Horace, Ep. i. Book 1. BEAUMONT. — FLETCHER.— CAREW. 129 FRANCIS BEAUMONT. 1585-1616. 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,... | |
 | Richard Grant White - 1865 - 425 pages
...Shakespeare and Jonson, the fame of which had reached Fuller's time, and caused him to imagine * " 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... | |
 | 1867
...literature. Here the "wit combats" took place, affectionately chronicled by Beaumont thus : " What tilings 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."... | |
 | Richard Dutton, Humanities Distinguished Professor of English Richard Dutton - 1983 - 188 pages
...Mermaid Tavern, nostalgically recalled by Francis Beaumont in his 'Letter from the Country' (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 whence they came, Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest,... | |
 | George Eliot - 1996 - 524 pages
...Fuller's Worthies, p. 126 A aa Ed. fol. [1, 90] (Francis Meres' Palladis Tamia, 1 598) [ 1, 90- 1 ] l 'What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble, & so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whom they came Had meant to put his whole wit... | |
 | Oxford University Press, TME. - 1999 - 1136 pages
...cloves, And they gave me this jolly red nose. The Knight o/ 1/«' Hunting I'eslle Ic. l (1(171 act i 13 What things have we seen, Done at the Mermaid! heard...words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtil llame, As if that every one from whence they came, Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had... | |
 | Kristin Rygg - 2000 - 267 pages
...Sidney Circle", pp. 126-159. Beaumont hints at the secretive nature of the pursuits of the Mermaiders: "What things have we seen/ Done at the Mermaid! Heard words that have been/ So nimble, and so full of subtile flame." Chester published a collection of poems by himself and others such as Shakespeare,... | |
 | James Bednarz - 2001 - 266 pages
...second source is a verse letter to Ben Jonson, sometimes attributed to Francis Beaumont, that recalls: "What things have we seen, / Done at the Mermaid!...heard words that have been / So nimble, and so full of subtle flame." Even though it is true that Jonson can be linked to a series of meetings at various... | |
 | Ilya Gililov - 2003 - 482 pages
...referred to as the Mermaid Club, and playwright Francis Beaumont speaks of those meetings in his poetic "Letter to Ben Jonson": What things have we seen Done...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 inagest, And... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 2003 - 338 pages
...country, dated between 1609 and 1612, by Francis Beaumont, another of the circle (if only for a time): What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid? heard words that have been so nimble, & so full of subtil flame as if that every one from whom they came had meant to put his whole wit in... | |
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