 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.  The Works of William Shakespeare ... - Page 170by William Shakespeare - 1901Full view - About this book
 | Francis Beaumont - 1750 - 560 pages
...things have wefeen Done at the Mer-maid ! 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 in a Jeft, And had refoh'd to live a Fool the reft Of his dull Life-, then when there hath been thrown Wit... | |
 | William Godwin - Great Britain - 1804 - 536 pages
...the convivial meetings he had been accustomed to hold with Shakespear, Fletcher and Jonson. gay and 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 cam«v Had meant to put his whole wit in ajest>... | |
 | Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont - English drama - 1811 - 728 pages
...Authors' time, and celebrated by Beaumont, in the following passage of a letter from him to Ben Jonson : What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard...one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole teil in a jest, And had resolv'd to live a fool the rest Of his dull life.' FROM the Mermaid is clearly... | |
 | Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont - English drama - 1811 - 712 pages
...things have we seeii 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...resolv'd to live a fool the rest Of his dull life ; then when there hath been thrown Wit able' enough to justify the town For three days past; wit that... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1811 - 712 pages
...themselves ; " 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,... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1812 - 562 pages
...us the following fascinating account of their meetings, in his poetical epistle to Ben Jonson : . " 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 meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And... | |
 | William Shakespeare - English drama (Comedy) - 1872 - 480 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...resolv'd to live a fool the rest Of his dull life." In further token of Shakespeare's having belonged to this merry parliament of genius, I must quote... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - Dramatists, English - 1816 - 538 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 full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whom they came, Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest,"... | |
 | John Tobin, Elizabeth Benger - Authors, English - 1820 - 470 pages
...have we see1!* 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 In a moral view the advantages resulting from this order of things... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Dramatists, English - 1821 - 372 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...resolv'd to live a fool the rest Of his dull life; then when there hath been thrown Wit able enough to justify the town For three days past, wit that... | |
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