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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 life. "
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Shakespeare [sic] and His Times: Including the Biography of the Poet ...

Nathan Drake - 1843 - 970 pages
...to them, Beaumont fondly lets his thoughts wander, in his letter to Jonson, from the country: — " What things have we seen, Done at the MERMAID ! heard words that have been So nimble, and ко full of subtle llame, As if that every one from whom they came. Had meant to put his whole wit...
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The Works of William Shakespeare: The Text Formed from an Entirely ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1844 - 600 pages
...respect." Of what passed at these many assemblies Beaumont thus speaks, addressing Ben Jonson : — ." What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard...so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whom they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest." The Mitre, in Fleet Street, seems to have...
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The Works of William Shakspeare: The Text Formed from an Intirely ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1844 - 598 pages
...respect.'" Of what passed at these many assemblies Beaumont thus speaks, addressing Ben Jonson : — •" What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard...so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whom they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest." " which two I behold like a Spanish great...
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Life of Sir Walter Raleigh: Founded on Authentic and Original Documents ...

Patrick Fraser Tytler - 1844 - 424 pages
...to them, Beaumont fondly lets his thoughts wander, in his letter to Jonson from the country, — " What things have we seen Done at the MERMAID! heard...so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whom they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest." In a tract, by Thomas Middleton, quoted by...
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Life of Sir Walter Raleigh: Founded on Authentic and Original Documents ...

Patrick Fraser Tytler - 1844 - 430 pages
...to them, Beaumont fondly lets his thoughts wander, in his letter to Jonson from the country, — " What things have we seen Done at the MERMAID! heard...words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle name, As if that every one from whom they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest." In a tract,...
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A New Spirit of the Age, Volume 1

Richard H. Horne - 1844 - 382 pages
...be regretted they are not more numerous. O 2 REV. S. SMITH, A. FONBLANQUE, DOUGLAS JERROLD. " Hard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from wbom thoy came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest." — BEAUMOVT. . " His fine wit Makes such...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 37

1856 - 606 pages
...to regale their leisure. Who does not know Beaumont's lines on this paragon of taverns ? . . . . " What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! Heard words that have been 80 nimble and so full of subtle flame, AM if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put...
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A New Spirit of the Age, Volume 1

Richard H. Horne - 1844 - 422 pages
..." Hard 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." BBAUMOKT. " His fine wit Makes such a wound, the knife fs lost in it." SHBLLBT. " I shall talk nothing...
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Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth

William Hazlitt - 1845 - 232 pages
...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 came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest * So in Rochester's epigram : — " Slernhold and Hopkins had great...
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Characters of Shakespeare's Plays

William Hazlitt - 1845 - 490 pages
...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 came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest • So in Rochester's epigram :— " Siernhold and Hopkins had great...
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