 | John Britton - 1849 - 394 pages
...other wits of the Elizabethan age, 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1850 - 710 pages
...most. Methinks the little wit I had is lost Since I saw you ; for wit is like a rest Held up at tennis, ot sweet, all is not sound. Give me a look, teen Done at the Mermaid ; heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 pages
..." Methinks the little wit I had is lost Since I saw you; for wit is like a rest Held up at Tennis, which men do the best With the best gamesters. What...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... | |
 | George R. Graham, Edgar Allan Poe - 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, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one, from whom they came, Had meant to put his whole wit in a jeet."... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 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...full of subtile flame, As if that every one, from whom they came, Had meant to pnt his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 pages
...most. Mcthinke the little wit I had is lost Since I saw you ; for wit is like a rest Held up at tennis, which men do the best, With the best gamesters : what...seen Done at the Mermaid ; heard words that have been s- 1 nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put... | |
 | Guildhall Library (London, England), Henry Benjamin Hanbury Beaufoy, Jacob Henry Burn - 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 words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whom they came, Had mean'd to put his whole wit in a jest."... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1853 - 1158 pages
...respect." Of what passed at these many assemblies Beaumont thus speaks, addressing Ben Jonson :— nts. Por. I pray you tarry : pause a day or two. Before you hazard ; for, subtle flame, Had mean - "What things have we seen As if that every one from whom they came iant to... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1853 - 442 pages
...respect." Of what passed at these many assemblies Beaumont thus speaks, addressing Ben Jonson : — " What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard words that have been Bo nimble, and so full of subtle name, As if that every one from whom they came Had meant to put his... | |
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