 | Francis Beaumont - 1843 - 114 pages
...witcombats0", in which, to the delight of the company, Shakespeare and Jonson would frequently engage ; " What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard...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 resolv'd to live a fool the rest... | |
 | Francis Beaumont - 1846 - 556 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...have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, 1 leys] ie bows. • vie are all equal every whit, &c.] Seward, at Sympson's suggestion, pointed the... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1843 - 566 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 subtile flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1843 - 690 pages
...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 lull of subtle flame, As i Г that every one from whom they came, Had meant to put his whole wit in... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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...they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest." The Mitre, in Fleet Street, seems to have been another tavern where the wits and poets of the day hilariously... | |
 | 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...they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest." " which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English man-of-war: Master Jonson, like the... | |
 | 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...they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest." In a tract, by Thomas Middleton, quoted by Mr Collier in his History of English Dramatic Poetry, and... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1844 - 600 pages
...what passed at these many assemblies Beaumont thus speaks, addressing Ben Jonson : — — — — " What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard...if that every one from whom they came Had meant to pat his whole wit in a jest." The Mitre, in Fleet Street, seems to have been another tavern where the... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1844 - 612 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...As if that every one from whom they came Had meant tu put hia whole wit in a jest." " which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English man-of-war... | |
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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. 
