 | 1856 - 502 lapas
...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... | |
 | Richard Grant White - 1865 - 454 lapas
...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... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 lapas
...Book 1. BEAUMONT. — FLETCHER.— CAREW. 129 FRANCIS BEAUMONT. 1585-1616. 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1865 - 436 lapas
...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... | |
 | Henry Boynton Smith, James Manning Sherwood - 1865 - 668 lapas
...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,... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1866 - 388 lapas
...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... | |
 | William Carlos Martyn - 1866 - 328 lapas
...spirits of the time, of which Beaumont thus speaks in a sonnet to Ben Jonson : "What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1868 - 978 lapas
...Beaumont reminds us of the wit and humour which flowed there, when he says, — " 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... | |
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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... 
