 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1881 - 986 pagina’s
...by those who knew it in its great days, as Beaumont recalled the revels at the immortal tavern : " 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 cnme Had meant to put hie whole wit In a jugtl"... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1881 - 304 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 it that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest,... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden - 1881 - 984 pagina’s
...by those who knew it in its great days, as Beaumont recalled tho revels at tho immortal tavern : " What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble and во full of subtile flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit... | |
 | Louise Creighton - 1882 - 312 pagina’s
...Beaumont, Fletcher, and others met and made merry. Of the meetings at "The Mermaid" Beaumont speaks in a letter to Jonson from the country — " What things...heard words that have been So nimble and so full of noble flame As if that everyone from whom they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest." Ealegh... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Richard Grant White - 1883 - 630 pagina’s
...in bulk, but lighter in movement, turning and tacking nimbly, and taking every advantage by the * '* What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard...have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, A9 if that every one from whom they came Had meant to put hi - whole wit in a jest, And had resolv'd... | |
 | John Dennis - 1883 - 424 pagina’s
...listened to and joined in this talk at the Bread Street tavern, and in his lines to Jonson he writes — " 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, And... | |
 | John Dennis - 1883 - 426 pagina’s
...listened to and joined in this talk at the Bread Street tavern, and in his lines to Jonson he writes — " 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, And... | |
 | Familiar quotations - 1883 - 942 pagina’s
...Will ne'er make grow again. Percy's Rtliques, The Friar of Orden Gray. 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,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1883 - 972 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 or subtile flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest,... | |
 | 1896 - 840 pagina’s
...spring of the day, and who might apply to that rustic inn Beaumont's lines to Jonson, beginning, — " What things have we seen ' Done at the Mermaid, heard...have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame." The most distinguished of the circle, Royall Tyler, who became chief justice of Vermont, was a man... | |
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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... 
