 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.  A Manual of English Literature - Page 288by Henry Morley - 1879 - 665 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Henry Morley - 1873 - 964 pages
...little poem in three four-lined stanzas and a couplet. 5. The "Mermaid" was a tavern by Cheapside, between Bread Street and Friday Street, accessible...close of the Looking-glass for London and England (ch. vii. § 70), meant the gradual loss of a main element in the audience — that part of it on which... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1875 - 508 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; then where there hath been thrown Wit able enough to justify the town For three days past: wit that... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1875 - 512 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 ; then where there hath been thrown Wit able enough to justify the town For three days past : wit that... | |
 | David Masson - 1875 - 698 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 ; then, when there hath beou thrown Wit able enough to justify the town For three days past — wit... | |
 | Thomas Ingoldsby, William Harness, George Hodder - 1875 - 350 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 ! " Mayhew will not fail to remember how he and I, as " the boys " (so called) of the party assembled... | |
 | Richard Henry Stoddard - 1875 - 344 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 ! " Mayhew will not fail to remember how he and I, as u the boys" (so called) of the party assembled... | |
 | David Masson - 1875 - 704 pages
...So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to pnt his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 pages
...heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtile flame, As if that every one from whence ne eyes, but not my heart. Hymn to Diana. — From ' Cynthia's Revels.' : then when there had been thrown Wit able enough to justify the town For three days past ; wit that... | |
 | William Mathews - 1877 - 324 pages
...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 they came Had...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 Right witty, though... | |
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