 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.  Littell's Living Age - Seite 2571853Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Francis Beaumont - 1750 - 560 Seiten
...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 in a Jeft, And had refoh'd to live a Fool the reft Of his dull Life-, then when there hath been thrown Wit... | |
 | William Godwin - 1804 - 536 Seiten
...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> And had resolv'd to live a fool the rest Of his dull... | |
 | Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont - 1811 - 712 Seiten
...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...Had meant to put his whole wit in a, jest, And had resolv'd to live a fool the rest Of his dull life ; then when there hath been thrown Wit able' enough... | |
 | Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont - 1811 - 728 Seiten
...res/, 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 hare been So nimble...one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole tcit in 3.jcst, And had resolv'd to live a fool the rest Of his dull life ; then when there hath been... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1811 - 712 Seiten
...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 subtle flame, As if...Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolv'd to live a fool the rest Of his dull life; then when there hath been thrown Wit able' enough... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1812 - 562 Seiten
...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 had resolved to live a fool the rest Of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1872 - 480 Seiten
...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, And had resolv'd to live a fool the rest Of his dull life." In further token of Shakespeare's having belonged... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 538 Seiten
...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," &c. Fairer prospects now began to open on... | |
 | 1925 - 948 Seiten
...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.... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1817 - 708 Seiten
...! 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, &c." * For the expression " wit-combats," in this interesting passage, we must refer to Fuller, who,... | |
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