 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 736 pages
...! heard words that have been Bo nimble, and so full of subtle flame, Ai if that every one from whom For I am she, and altogether joyless. I can no long The Mitre, in Fleet-street, seems to have been another tavern where the wits and poete of the day hilariously... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1849 - 574 pages
...With the best gamesters: what things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtile flame, As if that...Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life ; then whea there hath been thrown Wit able enough... | |
 | John Britton - 1849 - 394 pages
...wits of the Elizabethan age, assembled at the Mermaid, we are told they " Heard words that had been So nimble, and so full of subtile flame, As if that every one from whom they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 pages
...With the best gamesters. What 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 whom they came, Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 408 pages
...heard words that have been So nimble, and so rill! of subtle flame, As if that every one from whom they came, Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest.' " The " wit combats " alluded to in this interesting passage are mentioned by Fuller, who, speaking... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 538 pages
...we seen Done nt the Mermaid ! heard word« that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, Ai 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." He died on the 15th of March, 1615, in the 30th... | |
 | Patrick Fraser Tytler - 1853 - 454 pages
...Ineard 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." In a tract, by Thomas Middleton, quoted by Mr Collier in his History of English Dramatic Poetry, and... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1853 - 442 pages
...! heard words that have been Bo nimble, and so full of subtle name, As if that every one from whom they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest." anything ill1. Connected with Ben Jonson'e solidity and slowness is a wittieism between him and Shakespeare,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1854 - 1232 pages
...With the beat gamesters. What, tilings have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! Hard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtile flame, As if that...whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in n JPSI, And had resolved to live a fool the real • So in Rochester's epigram : — " Sicrnhoid and... | |
 | 1854 - 778 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." Ben Jonson had another club, of which he appears to have been the founder, held in a room of the old... | |
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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. 
