 | William Hazlitt - 1859 - 494 pages
...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... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 714 pages
...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,... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1860 - 370 pages
...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,... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1860 - 396 pages
...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 subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest,... | |
 | 1861 - 882 pages
...mirth and jollity. It was to the meetings at the Mermaid that Beaumont probably alludes in his epistle to Ben Jonson : — What things have we seen Done...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... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1861 - 420 pages
...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... | |
 | John Wood Warter - 1861 - 250 pages
...were they that FRANCIS BEAUMONT remembered in his Letter to BEN JONSON : " What Things have we feer. Done at the Mermaid ! heard Words that have been So nimble, and fo full of fubtle Flame, As if that every One from whence they came Had meant to put his whole Wit... | |
 | John Wood Warter - 1861 - 250 pages
...were they that FRANCIS BEAUMONT remembered in his Letter to BEN JONSON : " What Things have we feen Done at the Mermaid ! heard Words that have been So nimble, and fo full of fubtle Flame, As if that every One from whence they came Had meant to put his whole Wit... | |
 | Francis Beaumont - 1862 - 732 pages
...well аз the saturnine Ben Jonson, could be jocund at times and under excitement. " What thing« hare 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... | |
 | Alexander Smith - 1863 - 338 pages
...drollery, the repartee, the sage sentences, the lightning gleams of wit, the thunder-peals of laughter. " What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ? Heard words that hath been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant... | |
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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... 
