 | Francis Beaumont - 1750 - 560 páginas
...Reft, Held up at Tennis, •which Men do the bejl With the left Gamejlers. What things have wefeen Done at the Mer-maid ! heard Words that have been So nimble and fo full of fubtle Flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole Wit... | |
 | William Godwin - 1804 - 536 páginas
...convivial meetings he had been accustomed to hold with Shakespear, Fletcher and Jonson. gay and 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 cam«v Had meant to put his whole wit in ajest>... | |
 | Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont - 1811 - 728 páginas
...and celebrated by Beaumont, in the following passage of a letter from him to Ben Jonson : What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard words that...one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole teil in a jest, And had resolv'd to live a fool the rest Of his dull life.' FROM the Mermaid is clearly... | |
 | Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont - 1811 - 712 páginas
...things have we seeii 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 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' enough... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1811 - 712 páginas
...For wit is like a rest, Held up at tennis, which men do the best With the best gamesters. 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,... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1812 - 562 páginas
...following fascinating account of their meetings, in his poetical epistle to Ben Jonson : . " 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 whom they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1872 - 480 páginas
...for wit is like a rest Held up at tennis, which men do the best With the best gamesters. What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard words that...Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolv'd to live a fool the rest Of his dull life." In further token of Shakespeare's having belonged... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 538 páginas
...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 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,"... | |
 | 1925 - 948 páginas
...words that there he had heard : — " Words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle Same, Af if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put hie whole wit in a .'.ml had resolved to live a fool the rest Of hU dull life." VOL. ccxvm. — NO.... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1817 - 708 páginas
...! 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, &c." * For the expression " wit-combats," in this interesting passage, we must refer to Fuller, who,... | |
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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 dull... 
