 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1855 - 580 lapas
...have we seen Done at the ' Mermaid !' heard words that have been So nimble, apd so full of subtile 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 his dull life ; then, when there hath been shown Wit able... | |
 | 1855 - 604 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 resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life ; then when there had been thrown "Wit able... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, Leigh Hunt - 1855 - 444 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 resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life ; then when there hath been thrown Wit able... | |
 | John Selden - 1856 - 314 lapas
...hurt of Jupiten Thunderbolts, as other trees are. Shakespeare and Jonson took place, thus alluded to by Beaumont in his letter to Jonson : What things...they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest. His intense application appears to have very materially injured his health, for in the dedication of... | |
 | M. A. Thomson - 1856 - 318 lapas
...the poet,f playful raillery, exalted by the power of genius, predominated over abstruse discussion. " What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard...every one from whom they came Had meant to put his wit in a jest," &c. The result of such communications as these, is frequently a close intimacy between... | |
 | John Selden - 1856 - 324 lapas
...thus alluded to by Beaumont in his letter to Jonson : What things have we seen Done at the.Mermaid ! Heard words that have been So nimble, and so full...they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest. His intense application appears to have very materially injured his health, for in the dedication of... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 366 lapas
...letter to Jonson from the country, — ' What things have we seen , Done at the Mermaid ! heard worda that have been So nimble and so full of subtle flame,...from whom they came Had meant to put his whole wit into a jest." " The " Kit-Kat Club," one of the most renowned of the clubs, was originated in the year... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1856 - 602 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 resolved to live a fool the rest • Of his dull life ; then when there hath been thrown Wit... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 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 resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life. GEORGE WITHER. 1588-1667. The Shepherd's Resolution.... | |
 | 1867 - 420 lapas
...literature. Here the "wit combats" took place, affectionately chronicled by Beaumont thus : " What tilings have we seen •Done at the Mermaid ! Heard words...they came, Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest." Again, Fuller says, "Many were the wit combats between Shakspeare and Jonson. I beheld them like a... | |
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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... 
