| Thomas H. Middleton - 1996 - 68 pages
...for a departed waiter: "God finally caught his eye." No. 34 (FRANCIS) BEAUMONT LETTER TO BEN JONSON What things have we seen, / Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been / So nimble, and so full of subtil flame, / As if that every one from whence they came, / Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest,... | |
| George Eliot - 1996 - 576 pages
...Fuller's Worthies, p. 126 A aa Ed. fol. [1, 90] (Francis Meres' Palladis Tamia, 1 598) [ 1, 90- 1 ] l 'What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble, & so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whom they came Had meant to put his whole wit... | |
| J. R. Mulryne, Margaret Shewring, Andrew Gurr - 1997 - 208 pages
...things have we seen Done at the Mermaid? Hard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtill 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 foole the rest Of his dull life ... This was a merry and witty England, with all... | |
| Elizabeth M. Knowles - 1999 - 1160 pages
...have we seen, Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtil llame, As if that every one from whence they came, Had meant...resolved to live a fool, the rest Of his dull life. 'letter to lien Jonson' 14 Here are sands, ignoble things, Dropt from the ruined sides of kings; Here's... | |
| David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - 2000 - 604 pages
...damned fooL' Donald Barthelme, 1968, The Indian Uprising', in Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts 38:8 What things have we seen, / Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been / So nimble, and so full of subtil flame, / As if that every one from whence they came, / Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest,... | |
| Kristin Rygg - 2000 - 310 pages
...Sidney Circle", pp. 126-159. Beaumont hints at the secretive nature of the pursuits of the Mermaiders: "What things have we seen/ Done at the Mermaid! Heard words that have been/ So nimble, and so full of subtile flame." Chester published a collection of poems by himself and others such as Shakespeare,... | |
| James Bednarz - 2001 - 358 pages
...second source is a verse letter to Ben Jonson, sometimes attributed to Francis Beaumont, that recalls: "What things have we seen, / Done at the Mermaid!...have been / So nimble, and so full of subtle flame." Even though it is true that Jonson can be linked to a series of meetings at various taverns like the... | |
| Ilʹi︠a︡ Gililov - 2003 - 502 pages
...Club, and playwright Francis Beaumont speaks of those meetings in his poetic "Letter to Ben Jonson": What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! Heard...from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit inagest, And had resolved to live a fool, the rest Of his dull life; then when there had been thrown... | |
| Alfred Leslie Rowse - 2003 - 636 pages
...Falstaffand his boys, the Mitre and the Mermaid as the poets knew them and handed them down to us: What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard...been So nimble and so full of subtle flame, As if diat every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest. . . . CHAPTER VI SOCIAL... | |
| Ben Jonson - 2003 - 358 pages
...country, dated between 1609 and 1612, by Francis Beaumont, another of the circle (if only for a time): What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid? heard words that have been so nimble, & so full of subtil flame as if that every one from whom they came had meant to put his whole wit in... | |
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