 | Francis Beaumont - 1843 - 114 lapas
...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 resolv'd to live a fool the rest Of his dull life ; then when there hath been thrown Wit able... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1843 - 566 lapas
...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1844 - 600 lapas
...reverence and respect." Of what passed at these many assemblies Beaumont thus speaks, addressing Ben Jonson : — ." What things have we seen Done at the...came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest." The Mitre, in Fleet Street, seems to have been another tavern where the wits and poets of the day hilariously... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 598 lapas
...reverence and respect.'" Of what passed at these many assemblies Beaumont thus speaks, addressing Ben Jonson : — •" What things have we seen Done at...they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest." " which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English man-of-war: Master Jonson, like the... | |
 | Patrick Fraser Tytler - 1844 - 424 lapas
...to them, Beaumont fondly lets his thoughts wander, in his letter to Jonson from the country, — " What things have we seen Done at the MERMAID! heard...they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest." In a tract, by Thomas Middleton, quoted by Mr Collier in his History of English Dramatic Poetry, and... | |
 | Richard H. Horne - 1844 - 356 lapas
...regretted they are not more numerous. SYDNEY SMITH, ALBANY FONBLANQUE, AND DOUGLAS JEKEOLD. " Hard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle...they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest." BEAUUOKT. " His fine wit Makes such a wound, the knife is lost in it." SHELLEY. « ' I shall talk nothing... | |
 | Patrick Fraser Tytler - 1844 - 430 lapas
...have we seen Done at the MERMAID! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle name, As if that every one from whom they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest." In a tract, by Thomas Middleton, quoted by Mr Collier in his History of English Dramatic Poetry, and... | |
 | Richard H. Horne - 1844 - 392 lapas
...JERROLD. " Ilnrd wenls that have been Bo nimble, miH so full of subtle flame, As if that every one IVom whom they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest." Butmonr. " His fine wit Makcs such a wound, the knife is lost in it." SHELLY. " I shall talk nothing... | |
 | 1856 - 606 lapas
...Heard words that have been 80 nimble and so full of subtle flame, AM 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 ; then when there hath been thrown Wit able... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 540 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...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. Then, when there hath been thrown Wit, able... | |
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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... 
