 | Francis Beaumont - 1750 - 560 pages
...Reft, Held up at Tennis, •which Men do the bejl With the left Gamejlers. What things have wefeen Done at the Mer-maid ! heard Words that have been So nimble and fo full of fubtle Flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole Wit... | |
 | William Godwin - Great Britain - 1804 - 536 pages
...the convivial meetings he had been accustomed to hold with Shakespear, Fletcher and Jonson. gay and 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 cam«v Had meant to put his whole wit in ajest>... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 802 pages
...Methinks the little wit I had is lost Since I saw you, for a wit is like a rest, Held up a tennis, which men do the best With the best gamesters : what things have we tetn Done at the Mermaid ? H^ard words that have been So nimble, and so full ofsubtill flame, As if... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1811 - 712 pages
...the other's presence, they even excelled themselves ; " For wit is like a rest, Held up at tennis, which men do the best With the best gamesters. What...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,... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1812 - 562 pages
...us the following fascinating account of their meetings, in his poetical epistle to Ben Jonson : . " 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 whom they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - Dramatists, English - 1816 - 538 pages
...them, Beaumont fondly lets his thoughts wander, in his letter to Jonson, from the country. — — " 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 whom they came, Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest,"... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1820 - 432 pages
...Methinks the little wit I had, is lost, Since I saw you ; for wit is like a rest Held up at tennis, which men do the best With the best gamesters. What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ? Hard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle ñame, As if that every one from whom... | |
 | John Tobin, Elizabeth Benger - Authors, English - 1820 - 470 pages
...the little wit I had is lost Since I saw you — for wit is like a rest, Held up at Tennis —*• which men do the best With the best gamesters. — What things have we see1!* Done at the Mermaid — heard words that have been So nimble — and so full of subtle flame,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Dramatists, English - 1821 - 372 pages
..." Sternhold and Hopkins had great qualms, When they translated David's Psalm*," Held up at tennis, which men do the best With the best gamesters. What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! Hard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtile flame, As if that every one from whence... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English drama - 1821 - 374 pages
..." Sternhold and Hopkins had great qualms, When they translated David's Psalms." Held up at tennis, which men do the best With the best gamesters. What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! Hard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtile flame, As if that every one from whence... | |
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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... 
