 | 1856 - 502 lapas
...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 - 412 lapas
...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,... | |
 | Richard Grant White - 1865 - 450 lapas
...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1865 - 436 lapas
...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... | |
 | Henry Boynton Smith, James Manning Sherwood - 1865 - 668 lapas
...wits of those days. Beaumont has commemorated this place in his lines beginning : "What things hare we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard words that have been So nimble and so full of flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1865 - 592 lapas
...saw yon ; 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 beozi So nimble, and eo full of subtile flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant... | |
 | William Carlos Martyn - 1866 - 328 lapas
...Beaumont, Fletcher, and other great spirits of the time, of which Beaumont thus speaks in a sonnet to Ben Jonson : "What things have we seen Done at...heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if they every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole soul in a jest,... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1866 - 388 lapas
...Swift writes Stella of his dinner there. Beaumont thus reveals to Ben Jonson their convivial talk : — What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtle fire, As if that every one from whom they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And... | |
 | George Ross - 1867 - 194 lapas
...merriment that were wont to set the table in a roar ! " What things have we seen " (says Beaumont) " Done at the Mermaid ; heard words that have been So nimble, and BO full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1868 - 384 lapas
...writes 'Stella' of his dinner there. Beaumont thus reveals to Ben Jonson their convivial talk : — ' What things have we seen Done at the "Mermaid" ! heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtle fire, 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... 
