 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1861 - 420 lapas
...letter to Ben, gives his testimony to the brilliancy of the conversation, when he exclaims, — c( 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 put his whole wit in a jest." Jonson seems... | |
 | 1861 - 882 lapas
...was to the meetings at the Mermaid that Beaumont probably alludes in his epistle to Ben Jonson : — 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... | |
 | Thomas H. Middleton - 1996 - 68 lapas
...for a departed waiter: "God finally caught his eye." No. 34 (FRANCIS) BEAUMONT LETTER TO BEN JONSON What things have we seen, / Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been / So nimble, and so full of subtil flame, / As if that every one from whence they came, / Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest,... | |
 | George Eliot - 1996 - 576 lapas
...Fuller's Worthies, p. 126 A aa Ed. fol. [1, 90] (Francis Meres' Palladis Tamia, 1 598) [ 1, 90- 1 ] l 'What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble, & so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whom they came Had meant to put his whole wit... | |
 | J. R. Mulryne, Margaret Shewring, Andrew Gurr - 1997 - 208 lapas
...Methinks the little wit I had is lost Since I saw you, for a wit is 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? Hard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtill flame, As if that every one from whence... | |
 | Kristin Rygg - 2000 - 310 lapas
...Sidney Circle", pp. 126-159. Beaumont hints at the secretive nature of the pursuits of the Mermaiders: "What things have we seen/ Done at the Mermaid! Heard...have been/ So nimble, and so full of subtile flame." Chester published a collection of poems by himself and others such as Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Marston,... | |
 | David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - 2000 - 604 lapas
...damned fooL' Donald Barthelme, 1968, The Indian Uprising', in Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts 38:8 What things have we seen, / Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been / So nimble, and so full of subtil flame, / As if that every one from whence they came, / Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest,... | |
 | James Bednarz - 2001 - 358 lapas
...second source is a verse letter to Ben Jonson, sometimes attributed to Francis Beaumont, that recalls: "What things have we seen, / Done at the Mermaid!...heard words that have been / So nimble, and so full of subtle flame." Even though it is true that Jonson can be linked to a series of meetings at various... | |
 | Ilʹi︠a︡ Gililov - 2003 - 502 lapas
...Club, and playwright Francis Beaumont speaks of those meetings in his poetic "Letter 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 that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit inagest, And... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 2003 - 358 lapas
...country, dated between 1609 and 1612, by Francis Beaumont, another of the circle (if only for a time): What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid? heard words that have been so nimble, & so full of subtil 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... 
