 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
 | Englishmen - 1837 - 494 lapas
...poetical epistle to Ben Jonson, Beaumont writes, " What things have wo seon Done at the Mrrmaiil I heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle llame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had... | |
 | Charles Armitage Brown - 1838 - 328 lapas
...things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtile flame, As if that every one from whence they came...in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life." There was wine, but we are not told every one was inspired by it. Beaumont, in this... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1838 - 1130 lapas
...fondly lets 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 fall of subtle flame, As if that every one from whom they came. Had meant to put his whole wit in a... | |
 | William John Thoms - 1839 - 222 lapas
...! 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 practice of giving apostle spoons at christenings has been thus described by Steevens in a note... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1840 - 754 lapas
...the saturnine Ben Jonson, could be jocund at times and under excitement. " What things hare 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, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of... | |
 | Edward Smallwood - 1840 - 106 lapas
...with Crockford's! "Hyperion to a satyr!" Well might Beaumont exclaim — What things have we seen Dene at the Mermaid ! Heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that eveiy one from whom they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest." No less a man than Raleigh... | |
 | 1841 - 744 lapas
...that burn,' so beautifully described by Beaumont in his letter to Jonson. ' 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 ina jest !' Travelling by the swift power of imagination,... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1841 - 918 lapas
...things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard words 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 resolv'd to live a fool the rest Of his dull life ; then when there hath been thrown Wit able enough... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1841 - 478 lapas
...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 subtile flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest,... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1841 - 710 lapas
...Beaumont in his letter to Jonson. " What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words (hat hare been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whom they came Had meant to pat his whole wit in a jest ! " Travelling by the swift power of imagination,... | |
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