 | English literature - 1855 - 604 pages
...to regale their leisure. Who does not know Beaumont's lines on this paragon of taverns ? . . . . " er whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1855 - 590 pages
...club, with Ben Jonson, Fletcher, Beaumont, and at last with Shakspeare's self, to hear and utter " Words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle...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... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, Leigh Hunt - Poetry - 1855 - 412 pages
...saw you ; 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 subtile flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest.... | |
 | Authors, English - 1855 - 834 pages
...club of genial spirits, to which regularly repaired Shakspcare, Beaumont, Fletcher, Seiden, Cotton, Donne, and many others whose names, even at this distant...call up a mingled feeling of reverence and respect. It is pretty certain, as I have already stated, that Shakspeare began his career in dramatic poetry... | |
 | John Selden - 1856 - 314 pages
...as other trees are. Shakespeare and Jonson took place, thus alluded to by Beaumont in his letter to Jonson : What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid...As if that every one from whom they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest. His intense application appears to have very materially injured his... | |
 | M. A. Thomson - 1856 - 318 pages
...the poet,f playful raillery, exalted by the power of genius, predominated over abstruse discussion. " What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard...As if that every one from whom they came Had meant to put his wit in a jest," &c. The result of such communications as these, is frequently a close intimacy... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1856 - 34 pages
...has read the lines froiu Beaumont to " rare Ben " on this inn, but they wiH ever bear repetition — What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard...flame, As if that every one from whom they came, Had mean'd to put his whole wit in a jest. 30.— 31. Two early tokens of other taverns of the same sign,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1856 - 602 pages
...used to regale their leisure. Who does not know Beaumont's lines on this paragon of taverns? . . . . " What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard...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... | |
 | John Selden - Table-talk - 1856 - 324 pages
...thus alluded to by Beaumont in his letter to Jonson : What things have we seen Done at the.Mermaid ! Heard words that have been So nimble, and so full...As if that every one from whom they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest. His intense application appears to have very materially injured his... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...Get money ; still get money, boy ; No matter by what means. FRANCIS BEAUMONT. 1585-1616. Letter 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 wit in a jest,... | |
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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... 
