 | Augustine Skottowe - 1824 - 380 pages
...and whose meetings furnished matter for retrospective delight in so competent a judge as Beaumont. " What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard...they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest." * The best specimen of Shakspeare's extemporary wit, is his jocular epitaph on Mr. John Combe, who... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 216 pages
...meetings furnished matter for retrospective delight in so competent a judge as Beaumont. "What thiuga hare we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble , and so full of subtle llama, As if that every one from whom they came Had meant to put his whole wit in u jest" 11. The best... | |
 | 1824 - 436 pages
...talent was assembled here I Shakespeare, Beaumont, Fletflicr, SeMen, Cotton, Carrw, Martin, and Dunne. " What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard words that hare been So nimble and so full of subtle flame, As If that every one from whence they came Had meant... | |
 | John Bull - 1825 - 782 pages
...out of those brisk fiery 'ยก"''-s of their wit, So tumble and so full of siiblle (lame, Ai if thai every one from whom they came Had meant to put his whole nit in a jest, And had resolv'd to uve a fooi the reit Of his dull life. " I was all ear to hear,"... | |
 | Richard Ryan - 1826 - 334 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 subtle...Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolv'd to live a fool the rest Of his dull life. Then, where there hath been thrown Wit, able enough... | |
 | Richard Ryan - 1826 - 338 pages
...which men do the best With the best gamesters. What things hare we seen Done at the Mermaid ? Hard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle...Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolv'd to live a fool the rest Of his dull lire. Then, where there hath been thrown Wit, able enough... | |
 | 1826 - 374 pages
...probable allusion to them. Beaumont let his thoughts wander, in his letter to Jonson, from the country : " What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard...been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if every one from whom they came, Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest," &c' Unfortunately, nons of... | |
 | 1826 - 372 pages
...some of 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 80 nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whom they came, Had meant to put... | |
 | Cornelius Webbe - 1828 - 468 pages
...silence, at so many brilliant imaginations, and watch the striking out of their fiery sparks of wit, So nimble and so full of subtle flame, As if that...And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life. ' I was all ear to hear,' and took in jests ' which might create a laugh under the ribs of death... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1830 - 522 pages
...the poett, playful raillery, exalted by the power of genius, predominated over abstruse discussion. " What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard...every one from whom they came Had meant to put his wit in a jest," &c. * Gifford's Life of Ben Jonson, p. 65. prefixed to an edition of his works. f Referred... | |
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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. 
