 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
 | Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange - 1878 - 378 pages
...Beaumont writes— 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...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... | |
 | Alfred Guy K. L'Estrange - 1878 - 384 pages
...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...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 - 380 pages
...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...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... | |
 | 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 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... | |
 | Walter Hamilton - 1879 - 344 pages
...nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if every one from whom they came Had meant to put his whole art 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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,...resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life. Then, when there hath been thrown \Vit able enough to justify the town For three days past — wit... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1880 - 394 pages
...so full of subtile flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole life in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life." 1 pass from Ben Jonson with one more remark, that his lyrics are among the most exquisite things in... | |
 | Mrs. Edmund Boger - 1881 - 260 pages
...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...resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life." Sir Walter Scott, in his History of the Drama, says of these twin authors' plays, that the plot was... | |
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