 | John Bull - 1825 - 782 lapas
...out of those brisk fiery '¡"''-s of their wit, So tumble and so full of siiblle (lame, Ai if thai every one from whom they came Had meant to put his whole nit in a jest, And had resolv'd to uve a fooi the reit Of his dull life. " I was all ear to hear,"... | |
 | Richard Ryan - 1826 - 334 lapas
...With the best gamesters. What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ? Hard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every...they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolv'd to live a fool the rest Of his dull life. Then, where there hath been thrown Wit,... | |
 | Richard Ryan - 1826 - 332 lapas
...With the best gamesters. What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ? Hard words that have .been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every...they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolv'd to live a fool the rest Of his dull life. Then, where there hath been thrown Wit,... | |
 | Cornelius Webbe - 1828 - 468 lapas
...silence, at so many brilliant imaginations, and watch the striking out of their fiery sparks of wit, So nimble and so full of subtle flame, As if that every...they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life. ' I was all ear to hear,' and took in jests... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1830 - 522 lapas
...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. * Gifford's Life of Ben Jonson, p. 65. prefixed to an edition of his works. f Referred... | |
 | 1832 - 792 lapas
...heard works 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, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life ; then, when there hath been thrown Wit able... | |
 | 1833 - 222 lapas
...many brilliant imaginations, and watch the striking out of their fiery sparks of wit, So nimble and BO full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whom...they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of Ma dull life. ' I was all ear to hear,' and took in jests... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1834 - 342 lapas
...With the hest gamesters. What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! Hard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every...they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life. Then, when there hath been thrown Wit, able... | |
 | George William Johnson - 1835 - 396 lapas
...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...they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest.' " (Jonson's works, 1. Ixvi.) The intimacy and affection that existed between Selden and Jonson, are... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1835 - 350 lapas
...With the best gamesters. What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! Hard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every...they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life. Then, when there hath been thrown Wit, able... | |
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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 dull... 
