 | William Shakespeare - 1858 - 762 trang
...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 So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whom they camo Had meant to put bis whole wit in a jest." Mr.... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1858 - 432 trang
...thus alluding to them, when writing from the country to his friend and fellow-labourer, Fletcher : 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 meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 714 trang
...Shakspcure, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, and the other literary celebrities of those days.2 " 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,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1859 - 494 trang
...which men do the best With the best gamesters. What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! Hard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtile flame, As if that every one from whence they camr. Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, A nd had resolved to live a fool the rest * So in Rochester's... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 554 trang
...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 things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! Hard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whom... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1860 - 392 trang
...most. 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...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,... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1860 - 370 trang
...opportunity of looking into minds as various as they were original. Beaumont has described the surface : — "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,... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1860 - 576 trang
..." Methinks thu 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 things have we seen Done at the Mermaid I heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtile flame, As if that every one from whence... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1861 - 420 trang
...letter to Ben, gives his testimony to the brilliancy of the conversation, when he exclaims, — c( 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 put his whole wit in a jest." Jonson seems... | |
 | 1861 - 882 trang
...was to the meetings at the Mermaid that Beaumont probably alludes in his epistle to Ben Jonson : — What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard words that have been So nimble and so fall of subtle flame, As if that every one from whom they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a... | |
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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... 
