 | David Masson - 1859 - 714 pages
...Beaumont and Fletcher, and the other literary celebrities of those days.2 " What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So...fool the rest Of his dull life ; then, when there hath been thrown Wit able enough to justify the town For three days past — wit that might warrant... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 554 pages
...! Hard 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,...a fool the rest Of his dull life. Then, when there hath been thrown Wit, able enough to justify the town For three days past, — wit, that might warrant... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 714 pages
...Beaumont and Fletcher, and the other literary celebrities of those days.2 " What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So...subtle flame, As If that every one from whence they cama Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1860 - 392 pages
...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...to justify the town For three days past ; wit that might warrant be For the whole city to talk foolishly Till that were cancell'd ; and when that was... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1860 - 370 pages
...as various as they were original. Beaumont has described the surface : — "What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! — heard words that have been...resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life and when that was gone, We left an air behind us, which alone ' Was able to make the two next companies... | |
 | Peter Paradox (pseud.) - 1860 - 296 pages
...within a range of twenty miles round his lodge. CHAPTER II. " Ridendum dicere verum quis vetat." " So nimble and so full of subtle flame, As if that...resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life." Mermaid Club, from Blackwood. THE evening on which the neAV debating society, established on the temporary... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1861 - 580 pages
...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...fool the rest Of his dull life ; then, when there hath been thrown Wit able enough to justify the town For three days past ; wit that might warrant be... | |
 | Francis Beaumont - 1862 - 732 pages
...! 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,...a fool the rest Of his dull life; then when there hath been known Wit able enough to justify the town For three days past ; wit that might warrant be... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1863 - 846 pages
...a poetical epistle to Ben Jonson, Beaumont writes, " What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid 1 heard words that have been So nimble, and so full...resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life." He died on the 15th of March, 1615, in the 30th year of his age, leaving behind him one daughter, who,... | |
 | Edward Lord Clark - 1864 - 378 pages
...Pyramids are ours. CHAPTER V CAIRO "Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men." Milun. " heard words that have been So nimble and so full of...came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life." Francis Beaumont. CAIRO, " the victorious," scatters... | |
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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 life. 
