 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 life.  Outlook and Independent - Página 1161900Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Nathan Drake - 1824 - 344 páginas
...wit-combats," of which Beaumont several years after, in his letter to Jonson from the country, says, What things have we seen, Done at the Mermaid! heard...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 was on the night previous to Shakspeare's... | |
 | Nathan Drake (M.D.) - 1824 - 656 páginas
...wit-combats," of which Beaumont several years after, in his letter to Jonson from the country, says, What things have we seen, Done at the Mermaid! heard...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 was on the night previous to Shakspeare's... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 216 páginas
...meetings furnished matter for retrospective delight in so competent a judge as Beaumont. "What thiuga hare we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble , and so full of subtle llama, As if that every one from whom they came Had meant to put his whole wit in u jest" 11. The best... | |
 | 1824 - 436 páginas
...talent was assembled here I Shakespeare, Beaumont, Fletflicr, SeMen, Cotton, Carrw, Martin, and Dunne. " What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard words that hare been So nimble and so full of subtle flame, As If that every one from whence they came Had meant... | |
 | 1826 - 374 páginas
...probable allusion to them. Beaumont let his thoughts wander, in his letter to Jonson, from the country : " What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard...been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if every one from whom they came, Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest," &c' Unfortunately, nons of... | |
 | Richard Ryan - 1826 - 334 páginas
...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 flame, As if that every one from whom they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolv'd to live a fool the rest Of... | |
 | Richard Ryan - 1826 - 338 páginas
...which men do the best With the best gamesters. What things hare we seen Done at the Mermaid ? 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 resolv'd to live a fool the rest Of... | |
 | 1826 - 372 páginas
...some of them, Beaumont fondly lets his thoughts wander in his letter to Jonson, from the country: " What things have we seen Done at the MERMAID ? heard words that have been 80 nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whom they came, Had meant to put... | |
 | Cornelius Webbe - 1828 - 468 páginas
...silence, at so many brilliant imaginations, and watch the striking out of their fiery sparks of wit, 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... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1830 - 522 páginas
...the poett, playful raillery, exalted by the power of genius, predominated over abstruse discussion. " What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard...so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whom they came Had meant to put his wit in a jest," &c. * Gifford's Life of Ben Jonson, p. 65. prefixed... | |
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