 | John Timbs - 1872 - 646 trang
...here for many years he regularly repaired, with Shakspeare, Beaumont, Fletcher, Selden, Cotton, Carew, Martin, Donne, and many others, whose names, even...call up a mingled feeling of reverence and respect." But this is doubted. A writer in the AthciKeum, Sept. 16, 1865, states : " The origin of the common... | |
 | John Timbs - 1872 - 646 trang
...here for many years he regularly repaired, with Shakspeare, Beaumont, Fletcher, Selden, Cotton, Carew, Martin, Donne, and many others, whose names, even...call up a mingled feeling of reverence and respect." But this is doubted. A writer in the Athenceum, Sept. 16, 1865, states : " The origin of the common... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1872 - 488 trang
...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,... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1872 - 582 trang
...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,... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 trang
...Makes not fresh nor grow again.1 The Queen of Corinth. Act iii. Sc. 2. FRANCIS BEAUMONT. 1586-1616. 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,... | |
 | David Masson - 1875 - 698 trang
...Shakspeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, and the other literary celebrities of those days.* " What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard...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... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1875 - 512 trang
...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...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... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1875 - 508 trang
...here, for many years, he regularly repaired with Shakspeare, Beaumont, Fletcher, Selden, Cotton, Carew, Martin, Donne, and many others, whose names, even...call up a mingled feeling of reverence and respect . Here, in the full flow and confidence of friendship, the lively and interesting "wit-combats" took... | |
 | Thomas Davies King - 1875 - 202 trang
...here for many years he regularly repaired with Shakspere, Beaumont, Fletcher, Selden, Cotton, Carew, Martin, Donne, and many others, whose names even at...call up a mingled feeling of reverence and respect. Jonson tells us himself in his graceful poem " Inviting a Friend to Supper: "— But that which most... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 trang
...Makes not fresh nor grow again.1 The Queen of Corinth. Act iii. Sc. 2. FRANCIS BEAUMONT. 1586-1616. 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,... | |
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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... 
