 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!  Table-talk of John Selden - Page viby John Selden - 1856 - 170 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Burke, Bernard Burke - Genealogy - 1846 - 414 pages
...letter to the old poet, written from the country : — " What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard words that have been So nimble and so full of...they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest." It is greatly to be regretted, that not a fragment of these meetings has come down to us ; a few scattered... | |
 | Eliphalet L. Rice - American literature - 1846 - 432 pages
...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 whale wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool (he rest... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1846 - 752 pages
...brilliancy of the conversation, when he exclaims, — " 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 oae, from whom they came, Had put his whole wit in a jest." Jonson seems to have held anger but a short... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...tennis, which men do the best, With the beet gamesters : what things have we eeen Done at the Mermaid ; ay but a little, I will come again. [¿".ai. Rom. 0 blessed, blessed night ! I am afear'd, B whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest... | |
 | Robert Folkestone Williams - 1847 - 342 pages
...had ever found in beating of the watch. CHAPTER XXXIV. 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 ! BEAUMONT. But that which most doth take... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 736 pages
...we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard words that have been Bo nimble, and so full of subtle flame, Ai y enjoys the queen thereof; For I am she, and altogether joyless. I can no long The Mitre, in Fleet-street, seems to have been another tavern where the wits and poete of the day hilariously... | |
 | John Britton - 1849 - 394 pages
...assembled at the Mermaid, we are told they " Heard words that had been So nimble, and so full of subtile 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 his dull life." So in our sportive race of rivalry, each... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1849 - 574 pages
...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 resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life ; then whea there hath been thrown Wit able... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - London (England) - 1850 - 502 pages
...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, And had resolved to live a fool the rest... | |
 | George R. Graham, Edgar Allan Poe - Literature - 1851 - 420 pages
...that resort of " good fellows" of the olden time — to have seen those things (l Done nt the Mermaid, heard words that have been So nimble, and so full...whom they came, Had meant to put his whole wit in a jeet." This indeed would have been a feast for the gods. It was in the midst of such brave spirits... | |
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