 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.  John Ford - Page ivby John Ford - 1888 - 471 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Englishmen - 1837 - 494 pages
...poetical epistle to Ben Jonson, Beaumont writes, " What things have wo seon Done at the Mrrmaiil I heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle llame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had... | |
 | Charles Armitage Brown - Autobiography in literature - 1838 - 328 pages
...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...resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life." There was wine, but we are not told every one was inspired by it. Beaumont, in this letter from the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1838 - 1130 pages
...allusion to them, Beaumont fondly lets his thoughts wander, in his letter to Jonson, from the country : '" m Shakespeare fall of subtle flame, As if that every one from whom they came. Had meant to put his whole wit in a... | |
 | Great Britain - 1839 - 204 pages
...combats between the wits of those days, so charmingly described by Beaumont in his letter to Jonson — " What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard...so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whom they caine Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest ! The practice of giving apostle spoons at... | |
 | William John Thoms - Anecdotes - 1839 - 222 pages
...! 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 ! The practice of giving apostle spoons at christenings has been thus described by Steevens in a note... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1840 - 754 pages
...well as the saturnine Ben Jonson, could be jocund at times and under excitement. " What things hare we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard words that have...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... | |
 | Edward Smallwood - 1840 - 106 pages
...with Crockford's! "Hyperion to a satyr!" Well might Beaumont exclaim — What things have we seen Dene at the Mermaid ! Heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that eveiy one from whom they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest." No less a man than Raleigh... | |
 | 1841 - 744 pages
...that breathe, and words that burn,' so beautifully described by Beaumont in his letter to Jonson. ' 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 ina jest !' Travelling by the swift power of imagination,... | |
 | Charles Knight - London (England) - 1841 - 918 pages
...I 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,... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1841 - 710 pages
...Beaumont in his letter to Jonson. " What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words (hat hare been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whom they came Had meant to pat his whole wit in a jest ! " Travelling by the swift power of imagination,... | |
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