 | 1855 - 604 Seiten
...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 ; then when there had been thrown "Wit able... | |
 | John Selden - 1856 - 314 Seiten
...trees are. Shakespeare and Jonson took place, thus alluded to by Beaumont in his letter to Jonson : What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! Heard...they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest. His intense application appears to have very materially injured his health, for in the dedication of... | |
 | M. A. Thomson - 1856 - 318 Seiten
...the poet,f playful raillery, exalted by the power of genius, predominated over abstruse discussion. " What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard...every one from whom they came Had meant to put his wit in a jest," &c. The result of such communications as these, is frequently a close intimacy between... | |
 | John Selden - 1856 - 324 Seiten
...thus alluded to by Beaumont in his letter to Jonson : What things have we seen Done at the.Mermaid ! Heard words that have been So nimble, and so full...they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest. His intense application appears to have very materially injured his health, for in the dedication of... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 366 Seiten
...letter to Jonson from the country, — ' What things have we seen , Done at the Mermaid ! heard worda that have been So nimble and so full of subtle flame,...from whom they came Had meant to put his whole wit into a jest." " The " Kit-Kat Club," one of the most renowned of the clubs, was originated in the year... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1856 - 602 Seiten
...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 ; then when there hath been thrown Wit... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1856 - 660 Seiten
...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, And resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life. GEORGE WITHER. 1588-1667. The Shepherd's Resolution.... | |
 | Robert Conger Pell - 1857 - 436 Seiten
...to which, probably, Beaumont alludes with so much affection in his letter to the old poet, written from the country : — What things have we seen Done...they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest. Temple Gates and Temple Bar. It was for this club that Jonson wrote the " Leges Convivales," printed... | |
 | George Henry Townsend - 1857 - 136 Seiten
...between the wits of those days, so charmingly described by Beaumont in his letter to Jonson :— ' What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard...they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest!' The practice of giving apostle spoons at christenings has been thus described by Steevens, in a note... | |
 | 1867 - 420 Seiten
...literature. Here the "wit combats" took place, affectionately chronicled by Beaumont thus : " What tilings have we seen •Done at the Mermaid ! Heard words...they came, Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest." Again, Fuller says, "Many were the wit combats between Shakspeare and Jonson. I beheld them like a... | |
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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... 
