 | Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange - 1878 - 378 páginas
...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,...resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life." . " What things have we seen Here it was that Shakespeare and Jonson often contended, the former like... | |
 | Alfred Guy K. L'Estrange - 1878 - 384 páginas
...!' 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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1876 - 288 páginas
...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 that... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1879 - 708 páginas
...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,...resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life." Ben Jonson, under James I., gradually became the convivial centre of a group of men of genius, and... | |
 | George Walter Thornbury - 1880 - 604 páginas
...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...a fool the rest Of his dull life. Then, when there hath been thrown \Vit able enough to justify the town For three days past — wit that might warrant... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Henry Norman Hudson - 1880 - 570 páginas
...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 whence they came...resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life. In further token of Shakespeare's having belonged to this merry parliament of genius, I must quote... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1880 - 300 páginas
...things have we seen Done at the Mermaid 1 heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtile flame, As if that every one from whence they came...in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Ofhisdulllife. In further token of Shakespeare's having belonged to this merry parliament of genius,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1880 - 842 páginas
...if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had rt solved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life ; then when...to justify the town For three days past ; wit that might warrant be For the whole city to talk foolishly Till that were cancelled ; and when that was... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1881 - 744 páginas
...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...to justify the town For three days past ; wit that might warrant be For the whole city to talk foolishly Till that were cancell'd ; and when that was... | |
 | David Masson - 1881 - 878 páginas
...Beaumont and Fletcher, and the other literary celebrities of those days.2 " What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard words that have been So...And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull hie : then, when there hath been thrown Wit able enough to justify the town For three days past, —... | |
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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. 
