 | William Godwin - 1804 - 536 pages
...the convivial meetings he had been accustomed to hold with Shakespear, Fletcher and Jonson. gay and What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard...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 in ajest> And had resolv'd to live... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1811 - 712 pages
...themselves ; " 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...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 resolv'd to live... | |
 | Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont - 1811 - 728 pages
...best With the best gamesters. What 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 his whole tcit in 3.jcst, And had resolv'd to live... | |
 | 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 they came And had resolved... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 538 pages
...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...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," &c. Fairer prospects now... | |
 | 1925 - 948 pages
...town and at work, sadly dreams of "the full Mermaid wine," and recalls the words that there he had heard : — " Words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle Same, Af if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put hie whole wit in a .'.ml had resolved... | |
 | John Tobin, Elizabeth Benger - 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...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... | |
 | William Oxberry - 1822 - 430 pages
...which men do the best With the best gamesters. What things have we seen Done in- the Mermaid ? Hard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that everyone from whom tbey came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1824 - 344 pages
...wit-combats," of which Beaumont several years after, in his letter to Jonson from the country, says, What things have we seen, Done at the Mermaid! heard...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. It was on the night previous... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1824 - 658 pages
...wit-combats," of which Beaumont several years after, in his letter to Jonson from the country, says, What things have we seen, Done at the Mermaid! heard...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. It was on the night previous... | |
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