 | Charles Knight - 1868 - 578 lapas
...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 subtile flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit... | |
 | Mary Elizabeth Braddon - 1868 - 668 lapas
...Beaumont wrote about Ben Jonson's famous club at the Mermaid in Cornhill : " 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 cam e Had meant to put his whole wit... | |
 | Books - 1868 - 220 lapas
...lets his thoughts wander in his letter to Johnson 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... | |
 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1868 - 384 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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1869 - 380 lapas
...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... | |
 | Sir John Beaumont - 1869 - 412 lapas
...will here set down Franeis Jteaumont's deseription of their Wit-eomhats : " 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 thoy eame Had meant to put his whole wit in... | |
 | Treasury - 1869 - 474 lapas
...means.* Every Man in lus Humour. Act ii. Sc. 3. 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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1869 - 366 lapas
...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... | |
 | 1870 - 610 lapas
...lively poetical description of the ' wit-combats' which took place there. ' What things have we seen ilogues, this play was written in haste, for representation so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whom they came Had meant to put his whole wit in... | |
 | sir John Scott Keltie - 1870 - 588 lapas
...lively poetical description of the ' wit-combats' which took place there. ' What things have we seen etter : even thy malice serves To me but as a ladder to mount so full of subtle flame, 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... 
