 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 670 lapas
...gamesters. What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! Hard 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 * So in Rochester's epigram : — " Bternhold and Hopkins... | |
 | 1845 - 410 lapas
...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 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... | |
 | Cornelius Webbe - 1845 - 398 lapas
...Mermaid ? Hard words that were 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 a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life. Then, when there had been thrown Wit able... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 520 lapas
...! Hard 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 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
...! Hard 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 a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life. Then, when there hath been thrown Wit, able... | |
 | Eliphalet L. Rice - 1846 - 432 lapas
...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 whale wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool (he rest Ofhiadulllife: The Mermaid was the chief... | |
 | John Burke, Bernard Burke - 1846 - 414 lapas
...! 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 a jest." It is greatly to be regretted, that not a fragment of these meetings has come down to us ; a few scattered... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 lapas
...things have we eeen Done at the Mermaid ; heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle blessed night ! I am afear'd, Being in night, all this is but a dream ; Too nattering swee And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life : then when there had been thrown Wit able... | |
 | Robert Folkestone Williams - 1847 - 340 lapas
...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 ! BEAUMONT. But that which most doth take my Muse and me, Is a pure cup of rich Canary wine, Which... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 736 lapas
...! heard words that have been Bo nimble, and so full of subtle flame, Ai if that every one from whom For I am she, and altogether joyless. I can no long The Mitre, in Fleet-street, seems to have been another tavern where the wits and poete of the day hilariously... | |
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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... 
