 | Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange - 1878 - 380 pages
...day sharpened their humour in friendly conflict. In his epistle to Ben Jonson, Beaumont writes — " What things have we seen Done at the ' Mermaid !'...resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life." Here it was that Shakespeare and Jonson often contended, the former like "a light English manof-war... | |
 | Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange - 1878 - 378 pages
...lets out devils. their humour in friendly conflict. In his epistle to Ben Jonson, Beaumont writes— Done at the ' Mermaid!' heard words that have been...resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life." . " What things have we seen Here it was that Shakespeare and Jonson often contended, the former like... | |
 | William Mathews - 1878 - 324 pages
...! hard words that have been So nimble, and BO full of subtle flame, As if that every one from wham they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest,...resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life. * * * We left an air behind us, which alone Was able to make the two next companies Bight witty, though... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1879 - 708 pages
...things we have seen Done at ' The Mermaid'! Heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtile flame, As if that every one from whom they came Had...resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life." Ben Jonson, under James I., gradually became the convivial centre of a group of men of genius, and... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1876 - 288 pages
...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,...resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life; that when there hath been thrown Wit able enough to justify the town For three days past, — wit that... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1879 - 706 pages
...Heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtile flame. As if that every one from whom tlioy came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And...resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life." Ben Jonson, under James I., gradually became the convivial centre of a group of men of genius, and... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1879 - 720 pages
...words that have been So nimble and so full of subtile flame, As if that every one from whom they carae Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had...resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life." Ben Jonson, under James I., gradually became the convivial centre of a group of men of genius, and... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1879 - 712 pages
...nimble and so full of subtile flame, As if that every one from whom they came Had meant to put bis whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life." Ben Jonson, under James I., gradually became the convivial centre of a group of men of genius, and... | |
 | George Walter Thornbury - 1880 - 604 pages
...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,...Of his dull life. Then, when there hath been thrown \Vit able enough to justify the town For three days past — wit that might warrant be For the whole... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Henry Norman Hudson - 1880 - 570 pages
...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,...resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life. In further token of Shakespeare's having belonged to this merry parliament of genius, I must quote... | |
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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... 
