 | Henry Morley - 1873 - 964 lapas
...things we have seen 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...resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life." Ben Jonson, under James I., gradually became the convivial centre of a group of men of genius, and... | |
 | David Masson - 1875 - 698 lapas
...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,...the rest Of his dull life ; then, when there hath beou thrown Wit able enough to justify the town For three days past — wit that might warrant be For... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1875 - 508 lapas
...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,...resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life; then where there hath been thrown Wit able enough to justify the town For three days past: wit that might... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1875 - 512 lapas
...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,...resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life ; then where there hath been thrown Wit able enough to justify the town For three days past : wit that might... | |
 | Thomas Ingoldsby, William Harness, George Hodder - 1875 - 350 lapas
...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,...resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life ! " Mayhew will not fail to remember how he and I, as " the boys " (so called) of the party assembled... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1875 - 344 lapas
...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,...resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life ! " Mayhew will not fail to remember how he and I, as u the boys" (so called) of the party assembled... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 lapas
...heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtile flame, As if that every one from whence ne eyes, but not my heart. Hymn to Diana. — From ' Cynthia's Revels.' had been thrown Wit able enough to justify the town For three days past ; wit that might warrant be... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1876 - 288 lapas
...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,...resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life ; that when there hath been thrown Wit able enough to justify the town For three days past, — wit... | |
 | William Mathews - 1877 - 324 lapas
...has celebrated and Beaumont so finely painted. What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! hard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle...resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life, * * * We left an air behind us, which alone Was able to make the two next companies Right witty, though... | |
 | Alfred Guy K. L'Estrange - 1878 - 384 lapas
...day sharpened their humour in friendly conflict. In his epistle to Ben Jonson, Beaumont writes — " What things have we seen Done at the ' Mermaid !'...resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life." Here it was that Shakespeare and Jonson often contended, the former like " a light English manof-war... | |
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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... 
