 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 страници
...still get money, boy ; No matter by what means. FRANCIS BEAUMONT. 1585-1616. Letter to Ben Jonson. 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,... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - 1857 - 444 страници
...to which, probably, Beaumont alludes with so much affection in his letter to the old poet, written from the country : — What things have we seen Done...Mermaid ! heard words that have been So nimble and BO fall of snbtle flame, As if that every one from whom they came Hod meant to put his whole wit in... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1858 - 762 страници
...respect." Of what passed at these many assemblies Beaumont thus speaks, addressing Ben Jonson : — " What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard...subtle flame, As if that every one from whom they camo Had meant to put bis whole wit in a jest." Mr. P. Cnnningham, in his " Handbook of London," 2nd... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 714 страници
...Shakspcure, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, and the other literary celebrities of those days.2 " 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 resolved to live a fool the rest... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1859 - 730 страници
...Jonson, could be jocund at times and under excitement. " What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid I heard words that have been So nimble and so full of...subtle flame, As if that every one from whom they camo Had meant to put hie whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1860 - 396 страници
...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...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... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1860 - 370 страници
...opportunity of looking into minds as various as they were original. Beaumont has described the surface : — "What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! —...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... | |
 | Peter Paradox (pseud.) - 1860 - 296 страници
...within a range of twenty miles round his lodge. CHAPTER II. " Ridendum dicere verum quis vetat." " 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... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1861 - 420 страници
...letter to Ben, gives his testimony to the brilliancy of the conversation, when he exclaims, — c( What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard...flame, As if that every one, from whom they came, Had put his whole wit in a jest." Jonson seems to have held anger but a short time, and was far from being... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1861 - 580 страници
...saw you ; for wit is like a rest Held up at tennis, which men do the best With the best gamesters.i 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,... | |
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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... 
