| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1841 - Počet stránok 710
...Beaumont in his letter to Jonson. " What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words (hat hare been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whom they came Had meant to pat his whole wit in a jest ! " Travelling by the swift power of imagination, we looked in at ll'illx... | |
| Charles Knight - 1841 - Počet stránok 918
...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 ! 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,... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1841 - Počet stránok 378
...With the best gamesters. What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! Hard words that have been Bo nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whom they enmo Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest. And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull... | |
| Francis Beaumont - 1843 - Počet stránok 114
...witcombats0", in which, to the delight of the company, Shakespeare and Jonson would frequently engage ; " 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 resolv'd to live a fool the rest... | |
| Francis Beaumont - 1846 - Počet stránok 556
...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...have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, 1 leys] ie bows. • vie are all equal every whit, &c.] Seward, at Sympson's suggestion, pointed the... | |
| Charles Knight - 1843 - Počet stránok 566
...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 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,... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1843 - Počet stránok 690
...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 lull of subtle flame, As i Г that every one from whom they came, Had meant to put his whole wit in... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1843 - Počet stránok 970
...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 words that have been So nimble, and ко full of subtle llame, As if that every one from whom they came. Had meant to put his whole wit... | |
| Patrick Fraser Tytler - 1844 - Počet stránok 424
...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...they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest." In a tract, by Thomas Middleton, quoted by Mr Collier in his History of English Dramatic Poetry, and... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1844 - Počet stránok 598
...respect.'" Of what passed at these many assemblies Beaumont thus speaks, addressing Ben Jonson : — •" What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard...they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest." " which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon and an English man-of-war: Master Jonson, like the... | |
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