 | Patrick Fraser Tytler - 1844 - 424 páginas
...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...subtle flame, As if that every one from whom they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest." In a tract, by Thomas Middleton, quoted by Mr Collier in... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1844 - 600 páginas
...passed at these many assemblies Beaumont thus speaks, addressing Ben Jonson : — ." What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard words that have been...subtle flame, As if that every one from whom they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest." The Mitre, in Fleet Street, seems to have been another tavern... | |
 | Richard H. Horne - 1844 - 356 páginas
...regretted they are not more numerous. SYDNEY SMITH, ALBANY FONBLANQUE, AND DOUGLAS JEKEOLD. " 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." BEAUUOKT. " His fine wit Makes such a wound, the knife is... | |
 | Richard H. Horne - 1844 - 382 páginas
...be regretted they are not more numerous. O 2 REV. S. SMITH, A. FONBLANQUE, DOUGLAS JERROLD. " Hard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from wbom thoy came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest." — BEAUMOVT. . " His fine wit Makes such... | |
 | Patrick Fraser Tytler - 1844 - 430 páginas
...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 name, As if that every one from whom they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest." In a tract,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 520 páginas
...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 his dull life.... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 540 páginas
...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 his dull life.... | |
 | Cornelius Webbe - 1845 - 398 páginas
...smoothed with Canary ?—Then ' what things were not seen And done, at the Mermaid ? Hard words that were 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 his dull life.... | |
 | 1845 - 570 páginas
...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,... | |
 | 1845 - 410 páginas
...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,... | |
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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! 
