 | Francis Beaumont - 1750 - Počet stránok 560
...Reft, Held up at Tennis, •which Men do the bejl With the left Gamejlers. What 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... | |
 | William Godwin - 1804 - Počet stránok 536
...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>... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - Počet stránok 802
...Methinks the little wit I had is lost Since I saw you, for a wit is like a rest, Held up a tennis, which men do the best With the best gamesters : what things have we tetn Done at the Mermaid ? H^ard words that have been So nimble, and so full ofsubtill flame, As if... | |
 | Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont - 1811 - Počet stránok 728
...the other's presence, they even excelled themselves; • " For wit is like a res/, Held up at tennis, which men do the best With the best gamesters. What...have we seen 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 Had meant... | |
 | Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont - 1811 - Počet stránok 712
...the other's presence, they even excelled themselves; • " For wit is like a rest, Held up at tennis, which men do the best With the best gamesters. What things have we seeii Done at the Mermaid ! heard words that hare been So nimble and so full of subtle flame, As if... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1812 - Počet stránok 562
...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... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - Počet stránok 538
...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,"... | |
 | 1925 - Počet stránok 948
...words that there he had heard : — " Words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle Same, Af if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put hie whole wit in a .'.ml had resolved to live a fool the rest Of hU dull life." VOL. ccxvm. — NO.... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1820 - Počet stránok 432
...Methinks the little wit I had, is lost, Since I 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 ? Hard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle ñame, As if that every one from whom... | |
 | John Tobin, Elizabeth Benger - 1820 - Počet stránok 470
...the little wit I had is lost Since I 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 see1!* Done at the Mermaid — heard words that have been So nimble — and so full of subtle flame,... | |
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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... 
