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... The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher - Page xivby Francis Beaumont - 1750Full view - About this book
| William Godwin - Great Britain - 1804 - 536 pages
...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... | |
| Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont - English drama - 1811 - 728 pages
...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 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 teil... | |
| Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1811 - 712 pages
...a rest Held up at tennis,5 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 subtile flame/ As if that every one- from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit... | |
| Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1812 - 562 pages
...a rest, With the best gamesters. What things have we seen Held up at tennis, which men do the best Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtle flame, Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, As if that every one from whence... | |
| William Shakespeare - English drama (Comedy) - 1872 - 480 pages
...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 subtile flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit... | |
| Ben Jonson, William Gifford - Dramatists, English - 1816 - 546 pages
...lets his thoughts wander, in his letter to Jonson, from thecountry. • " 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... | |
| Nathan Drake - Dramatists, English - 1817 - 708 pages
...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... | |
| John Tobin, Elizabeth Benger - Authors, English - 1820 - 470 pages
...up at Tennis —*• which men do the best With the best gamesters. — What things have we see1!* 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... | |
| Art - 1824 - 436 pages
...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 to put hli whole life in a jest." Beaumont in a Letter to Jontoit. f Then was rather an alarming Intimation... | |
| Augustine Skottowe - 1824 - 708 pages
...furnished matter for retrospective delight in so competent a judge as Beaumont. " 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... | |
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