| Robert Conger Pell - 1857 - 436 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. Temple Gates and Temple Bar. It was for this club that Jonson wrote the " Leges Convivales," printed... | |
| Chambers's journal - 1858 - 432 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, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull lhe. Another noted club, of nearly the same period,... | |
| David Masson - 1859 - 714 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, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life ; then, when there hath been thrown Wit able... | |
| Charles Kingsley - 1859 - 432 lapas
...utter ' 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.' Anything to forget the hand-writing on the wall, which will not be forgotten. But he will do all the... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1859 - 494 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 camr. Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, A nd had resolved to live a fool the rest * So in Rochester's... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 554 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... | |
| Charles Kingsley - 1859 - 474 lapas
...utter u 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." # Any thing to forget the handwriting on the wall, which will not be forgotten. But he will do all... | |
| Peter Paradox (pseud.) - 1860 - 296 lapas
...round his lodge. CHAPTER II. " Ridendum dicere verum quis vetat." " 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." Mermaid Club, from Blackwood. THE evening... | |
| George Gilfillan - 1860 - 392 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, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life : then when there had been thrown Wit able... | |
| 1867 - 420 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." Again, Fuller says, "Many were the wit combats between Shakspeare and Jonson. I beheld them like a... | |
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