 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1856 - 34 lapas
...has read the lines froiu Beaumont to " rare Ben " on this inn, but they wiH ever bear repetition — 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 mean'd to put his whole wit in a jest.... | |
 | M. A. Thomson - 1856 - 318 lapas
...the poet,f playful raillery, exalted by the power of genius, predominated over 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. The... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1856 - 602 lapas
...used to regale their leisure. Who does not know Beaumont's lines on this paragon of taverns? . . . . " 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 Henry Townsend - 1857 - 136 lapas
...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... | |
 | George Henry Townsend - 1857 - 136 lapas
...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 ! '... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - 1857 - 436 lapas
...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 - 396 lapas
...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 - 444 lapas
...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 - 762 lapas
...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 - 432 lapas
...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... | |
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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... 
