| Charles Knight - 1849 - 574 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 resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life ; then whea there hath been thrown Wit able... | |
| John Britton - 1849 - 394 lapas
..." Heard words that had been So nimble, and 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." So in our sportive race of rivalry, each... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1851 - 408 lapas
...heard words that have been So nimble, and so rill! of subtle flame, As if that every one from whom they came, Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest.' " The " wit combats " alluded to in this interesting passage are mentioned by Fuller, who, speaking... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 lapas
...heard words that have been So nimble, and 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... | |
| George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 538 lapas
...we seen Done nt the Mermaid ! heard word« that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, Ai 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." He died on the 15th of March, 1615, in... | |
| Patrick Fraser Tytler - 1853 - 454 lapas
...Ineard 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." In a tract, by Thomas Middleton, quoted by Mr Collier in his History of English Dramatic Poetry, and... | |
| William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1853 - 440 lapas
...! heard words that have been Bo 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." anything ill1. Connected with Ben Jonson'e solidity and slowness is a wittieism between him and Shakespeare,... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1854 - 1232 lapas
...gamesters. What, tilings 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 n JPSI, And had resolved to live a fool the real So in Rochester's epigram : " Sicrnhoid and... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 360 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 !" Fairer prospects began to open on Jonson at the accession of James, who was liberal to men of merit,... | |
| 1854 - 778 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." Ben Jonson had another club, of which he appears to have been the founder, held in a room of the old... | |
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