 | David Masson - 1875 - 698 pages
...Beaumont and Fletcher, and the other literary celebrities of those days.* " What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard words that have been So...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 that might warrant... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1875 - 508 pages
...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 ! heard words that have been So...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 might... | |
 | Ben Jonson - English drama - 1875 - 512 pages
...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 ! heard words that have been So...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 might... | |
 | Thomas Ingoldsby, William Harness, George Hodder - Clergy - 1875 - 350 pages
...succession of incidents connected with our constant intercourse — " What things have we seen Done at the ! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full...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... | |
 | Thomas Ingoldsby, William Harness, George Hodder - Clergy - 1875 - 354 pages
...succession of incidents connected with our constant intercourse — " What things have we seen Done at the ! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full...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... | |
 | David Masson - 1875 - 704 pages
...and the other literary celebrities of those days.* " What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid 1 heard words that have been So nimble, and so full...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - Authors, English - 1876 - 870 pages
...things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtile l th' adulteries of art : They strike mine eyes, but...heart. Hymn to Diana. — From ' Cynthia's Revels.' might warrant be For the whole city to talk foolishly Till that were cancelled ; and when that was... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - English poetry - 1876 - 288 pages
...stock, the store Of such a wit the world should have no more. THE MERMAID. WHAT things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard words that have been So...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... | |
 | William Mathews - 1877 - 324 pages
...! hard 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,...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... | |
 | Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange - English wit and humor - 1878 - 380 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,...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... | |
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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. 
