 | Kate Sanborn - 1869 - 306 pagina’s
...merry meetings in a sonnet to Jonson : " What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard word.- that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if they every one from whence they came, Had meant to put his whole soul in a jest, And had resolved to... | |
 | Henry Philip Dodd - 1870 - 652 pagina’s
...Letter to Ben Jonson " (Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, 1778, I. cxxxix.), expresses the same thought : What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard words that have been So nimble, nnd so full of subtile flame, As it' that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole... | |
 | John Timbs - 1872 - 646 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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,... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1872 - 488 pagina’s
...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,... | |
 | John Timbs - 1872 - 646 pagina’s
...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,... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1873 - 964 pagina’s
...frequented it we have witness in Beaumont's lines to Jonson, which recall — " What things we have 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. And... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1874 - 798 pagina’s
...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,... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1875 - 890 pagina’s
...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,... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1876 - 482 pagina’s
...one carries in his memory the verse-letter of Beaumont to Ben Jonson of " The Mermaid " : — • " What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard...So nimble and so full of subtle flame, As if that any one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolv'd to live 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 subtile 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... 
