 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 North American Review - Page 49edited by - 1846Full view - About this book
 | George R. Graham, Edgar Allan Poe - Literature - 1851 - 420 pages
...Donne, at 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,...flame, As if that every one, from 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... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 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 whom they came, Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest,... | |
 | Francis Beaumont - 1851 - 720 pages
...times and under excitement. " What things hare 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 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 ; then... | |
 | Robert Folkestone Williams - Shakespeare in fiction, drama, poetry, etc - 1851 - 328 pages
...had ever found in beating of the watch. CHAPTER XXXIV. What things have we seen Done at THE MEHMAID : heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they camo Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest ! BEAUMONT. But that which most doth take... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 408 pages
...his thoughts wander, in his letter to Jonson, from the country : . . —What things have we seen Doue at the Mermaid ! heard words that have been So nimble, and so rill! of subtle flame, As if that every one from whom they came, Had meant to put his whole wit in... | |
 | Arts - 1852 - 432 pages
...silence, at BO many brilliant imaginations, and watch the striking out of their fiery sparks of wit — " So nimble and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whom they came Had meant to put hi* whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest 01 his dull life." "... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 588 pages
...like a rest Held up at Tennis, which men do the best With the best gamesters. What things havu we leeo Done at the ' Mermaid !' heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtile flame, As if that every one, from whom they came, Had meant to pnt his whole wit in a jest,... | |
 | Guildhall Library (London, England), Henry Benjamin Hanbury Beaufoy, Jacob Henry Burn - Bars (Drinking establishments) - 1853 - 308 pages
..."the immortal Ben," from Beaumont, who died ere he had reached his thirtieth year, in March, 1616 : " 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." The Mermaid and the Mitre appear to have been rival taverns,... | |
 | Patrick Fraser Tytler - Explorers - 1853 - 454 pages
...in his letter to Jonson from the country, — " What things have we seen Done at the MERMAID Ineard 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." In a tract, by Thomas Middleton, quoted by Mr Collier in his... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - American essays - 1853 - 314 pages
...to them, 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 name, As if that every one from whom they came Had meant to put his whole wit into a jest.' " The "... | |
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