 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 life.  Memoirs of Mr. John Tobin ... - 137. lappuseautors: John Tobin, Elizabeth Benger - 1820 - 444 lapasPilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
 | Nathan Drake (M.D.) - 1824 - 656 lapas
...Beaumont several years after, in his letter to Jonson from the country, says, What things have we seen, Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So...so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whom they came, Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest. It was on the night previous to Shakspeare's... | |
 | 1824 - 436 lapas
...Cotton, Carrw, Martin, and Dunne. " What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard words that hare been So nimble and so full of subtle flame, As If...that every one from whence they came Had meant to put hli whole life in a jest." Beaumont in a Letter to Jontoit. f Then was rather an alarming Intimation... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 216 lapas
...furnished matter for retrospective delight in so competent a judge as Beaumont. "What thiuga hare we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble , and so full of subtle llama, As if that every one from whom they came Had meant to put his whole wit in u jest" 11. The best... | |
 | Augustine Skottowe - 1824 - 380 lapas
...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." * The best specimen of Shakspeare's extemporary wit, is his jocular epitaph on Mr. John Combe, who... | |
 | 1826 - 374 lapas
...Beaumont let his thoughts wander, in his letter to 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 every one from whom they came, Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest," &c' Unfortunately, nons of... | |
 | Richard Ryan - 1826 - 338 lapas
...which men do the best With the best gamesters. What things hare we seen Done at the Mermaid ? Hard 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 had resolv'd to live a fool the rest Of... | |
 | Richard Ryan - 1826 - 334 lapas
...which men do the best 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 one from whom they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolv'd to live a fool the rest Of... | |
 | 1826 - 372 lapas
...Jonson, from the country: " What things have we seen Done at the MERMAID ? heard words that have been 80 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." For the expression, " wit-combats," we must... | |
 | 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 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... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1830 - 522 lapas
...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...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... | |
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