 | Leigh Hunt - 1835 - 350 lapas
...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 subtle...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... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 246 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." He died on the 15th of March, 1615, in... | |
 | Samuel Astley Dunham - 1837 - 418 lapas
...with Shakespear, — combats which set the table in a roar. Thus Beaumont in a letter to him : — " What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard...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." Where, we repeat, amidst scenes so unfavourable... | |
 | 1841 - 754 lapas
...that breathe, and words that burn,' so beautifully described by Beaumont in his letter to Jonson. ' What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard...from whom they came Had meant to put his whole wit ina jest!' Travelling by the swift power of imagination, we looked in at WiWs and Button's; beheld... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1838 - 1130 lapas
...'" What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard words that have been So nimble, and so fall '*• The 'wit combats' alluded to in this interesting passage are mentioned by Fuller, who, speaking... | |
 | William John Thoms - 1839 - 222 lapas
...combats between the wits of those days, so charmingly described by Beaumont in his letter to Jonson — " What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard...they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest ! The practice of giving apostle spoons at christenings has been thus described by Steevens in a note... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1840 - 754 lapas
...well as the saturnine Ben Jonson, could be jocund at times and under excitement. " What things hare we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard words that have...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 known Wit able... | |
 | Edward Smallwood - 1840 - 106 lapas
...at the Mermaid ! Heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that eveiy one from whom they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest." No less a man than Raleigh founded the Mermaid — his thoughts ever running on the sea,-r-and the... | |
 | 1841 - 744 lapas
...that breathe, and words that burn,' so beautifully described by Beaumont in his letter to Jonson. ' What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard...from whom they came Had meant to put his whole wit ina jest !' Travelling by the swift power of imagination, we looked in at Wilts and Button's ; beheld... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1841 - 918 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 resolv'd to live a fool the rest Of his dull life ; then when there hath been thrown Wit able... | |
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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... 
