 | John Bartlett - 1856 - عدد الصفحات: 358
...Get money ; 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,... | |
 | 1857
...here for many years he regularly repaired, with Sbakspere, Beaumont, Fletcher, Selden, Cotton, Carew, Martin, Donne, and many others whose names, even at...call up a mingled feeling of reverence and respect.'' These club meetings were not merely convivial, and the painler,with a fine discretion, has chosen their... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1858
...here for many years Ben Jonson repaired with Shakespeare, Beaumont, Fletcher, Selden, Cotton, Carew, Martin, Donne, and many others, whose names, even...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
...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
...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... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1860
...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... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1860
...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... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1861
...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
...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,... | |
 | 1861
...and jollity. It was to the meetings at the Mermaid that Beaumont probably alludes in his epistle to Ben Jonson : — What things have we seen Done at...Mermaid ! heard words that have been So nimble and so fall of subtle flame, As if that every one from whom they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a... | |
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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... 
