 | Richard Ryan - 1826 - Страниц: 336
...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 flame, As if that every one from whom... | |
 | Richard Ryan - 1826 - Страниц: 334
...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 flame, As if that every one from whom... | |
 | 1826 - Страниц: 372
...some of 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 80 nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whom they came, Had meant to put... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1830 - Страниц: 522
...the poett, playful raillery, exalted by the power of genius, predominated over abstruse discussion. " 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 wit in a jest," &c. * Gifford's... | |
 | George William Johnson - 1835 - Страниц: 398
...allusion 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 so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whom they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest.' "... | |
 | George William Johnson - 1835 - Страниц: 426
...allusion 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 so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whom they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest.' "... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1835 - Страниц: 350
...Alethiuks 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 flame, As if that every one from whom... | |
 | 1835 - Страниц: 550
...(Minis, which men do the best With the beet j,-Eime3u-rs. What things have we secu Done at the Mermaid I heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtile (lame, As if that every one from whence they c.ime II:id mi-ant to put his whole wit in a jest, And... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - Страниц: 246
...of Ben Jonson, and the genius of Shakspeare. In a poetical epistle to Ben Jonson, Beaumont writes, " 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,... | |
 | Samuel Astley Dunham - 1837 - Страниц: 418
...with Shakespear, — combats which set the table in a roar. Thus Beaumont in a letter to him : — " 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... | |
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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... 
