 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.  A Life of William Shakespeare - Page 239by Joseph Quincy Adams - 1923 - 560 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George William Johnson - Great Britain - 1835 - 398 pages
...allusion 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.' " (Jonson's works, 1. Ixvi.) The intimacy... | |
 | George William Johnson - Great Britain - 1835 - 426 pages
...allusion 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.' " (Jonson's works, i. Ixvi.) The intimacy... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English essays - 1835 - 350 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 flame, As if that every one from whom they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of... | |
 | George William Johnson - Great Britain - 1835 - 390 pages
...! 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.' " (Jonson's works, 1. Ixvi.) The intimacy and affection that existed between Selden and Jonson, are... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 246 pages
...of Ben Jonson, and the genius of Shakspeare. In a poetical epistle to Ben Jonson, Beaumont writes, " What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard...Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life." He died on the 15th of March, 1615, in the 30th... | |
 | Samuel Astley Dunham - Authors, English - 1837 - 418 pages
...with Shakespear, — combats which set the table in a roar. Thus Beaumont in a letter to him : — " 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, And had resolved to live a fool the rest... | |
 | Englishmen - 1837 - 494 pages
...poetical epistle to Ben Jonson, Beaumont writes, " What things have wo seon Done at the Mrrmaiil I heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle llame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had... | |
 | Charles Armitage Brown - Autobiography in literature - 1838 - 328 pages
...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 life." There was wine, but we are not told every one was... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1838 - 1130 pages
...allusion to them, Beaumont fondly lets his thoughts wander, in his letter to Jonson, from the country : '" m Shakespeare fall of subtle flame, As if that every one from whom they came. Had meant to put his whole wit in a... | |
 | Great Britain - 1839 - 204 pages
...combats between the wits of those days, so charmingly described by Beaumont in his letter to Jonson — " What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard...so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whom they caine Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest ! The practice of giving apostle spoons at... | |
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