 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...  Table-talk; or, Original essays - Seite 62von William Hazlitt - 1824Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont - 1811 - 728 Seiten
...Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolv'd to live a fool the rest Of his dull life ; then when there hath been thrown Wit able enough to...might warrant be For the whole city to talk foolishly .'Till that were cancell'd : and when that was gone, We left an air behind us, which alone Was able... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1811 - 712 Seiten
...Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolv'd to live a fool the rest Of his dull life ; then when there hath been thrown Wit able enough to...three days past : wit that might warrant be For the whde city to talk foolishly 'Till that were cancell'd : and when that was gone. We left an air behind... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1812 - 562 Seiten
...Had meant to put 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...might warrant be For the whole city to talk foolishly Till that were cancelled ; and when that was gone We left an air behind us, which alone of faith in... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1820 - 432 Seiten
...meant to put his whole wit in a jest, ' i And had resolved lo live a tool the rest Of his dull life. Then, when there hath been thrown Wit, able enough...that might warrant be .•'.,' For the whole city to talL. foolishly • , . • ,¡ ., i Till that were cancelled, a;id when that was gone, , We left an... | |
 | John Tobin, Elizabeth Benger - 1820 - 470 Seiten
...disposed to contemplate this poetical state of society, it Of his dull life. — Then when there had been thrown Wit able enough to justify the town For...that might warrant be, For the whole city to talk polishly, 'Till that were cancelled, and when that was gone, We left an air behind us — which alone... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 380 Seiten
...Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolv'd to live a fool the rest Of his dull life ; then when there hath been thrown Wit able enough to...might warrant be For the whole city to talk foolishly, Till that were cancell'd ; and when that was gone, We left an air behind us, which alone Was able to... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1821 - 374 Seiten
...Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolv'd to live a fool the rest Of his dull life; then when there hath been thrown Wit able enough to...might warrant be For the whole city to talk foolishly, Till that were cancell'd ; and when that was gone, We left an air behind us, which alone Was able to... | |
 | William Oxberry - 1822 - 430 Seiten
...Had meant to put 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...might warrant be For the whole city to talk foolishly Till that were cancelled, and when that was gone, We left an air behind us, which alone , Was able... | |
 | 1822 - 492 Seiten
...whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life. Then, when there had been thrown Wit able enough to justify the town For...might warrant be For the whole city to talk foolishly Till that were cancelled — and when that was gone, An air was left behind them, which alone Was able... | |
 | 1823 - 536 Seiten
...called the Mermaid, which was situated in Cornhill. There, as Beaumont tells us, ' hath been shewn Wit able enough to justify the town For three days past, — wit that might warrant For the whole city to talk foolishly Till that were cancell'd ; and when that was gone, We left an... | |
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