 | William Harvey - 1864 - Страниц: 412
...wine, Which is the Mermaid's now, but shall be mine." "What things have we seen Gifford's " Jomon." Done at the Mermaid ! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that ev'ry one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest,... | |
 | John Bartlett - 1865 - Страниц: 504
...place. POPE. Horace, Ep. i. Book 1. BEAUMONT. — FLETCHER.— CAREW. 129 FRANCIS BEAUMONT. 1585-1616. What 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 Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And resolved... | |
 | Richard Grant White - 1865 - Страниц: 450
...Shakespeare and Jonson, the fame of which had reached Fuller's time, and caused him to imagine * " 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... | |
 | 1867 - Страниц: 420
...literature. Here the "wit combats" took place, affectionately chronicled by Beaumont thus : " What tilings 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."... | |
 | Thomas H. Middleton - 1996 - Страниц: 68
...for a departed waiter: "God finally caught his eye." No. 34 (FRANCIS) BEAUMONT LETTER TO BEN JONSON What things have we seen, / Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been / So nimble, and so full of subtil flame, / As if that every one from whence they came, / Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest,... | |
 | George Eliot - 1996 - Страниц: 576
...Fuller's Worthies, p. 126 A aa Ed. fol. [1, 90] (Francis Meres' Palladis Tamia, 1 598) [ 1, 90- 1 ] l 'What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble, & so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whom they came Had meant to put his whole wit... | |
 | Kristin Rygg - 2000 - Страниц: 310
...Sidney Circle", pp. 126-159. Beaumont hints at the secretive nature of the pursuits of the Mermaiders: "What things have we seen/ Done at the Mermaid! Heard...that have been/ So nimble, and so full of subtile flame." Chester published a collection of poems by himself and others such as Shakespeare, Ben Jonson,... | |
 | David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - 2000 - Страниц: 604
...damned fooL' Donald Barthelme, 1968, The Indian Uprising', in Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts 38:8 What things have we seen, / Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been / So nimble, and so full of subtil flame, / As if that every one from whence they came, / Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest,... | |
 | James Bednarz - 2001 - Страниц: 358
...second source is a verse letter to Ben Jonson, sometimes attributed to Francis Beaumont, that recalls: "What things have we seen, / Done at the Mermaid!...heard words that have been / So nimble, and so full of subtle flame." Even though it is true that Jonson can be linked to a series of meetings at various... | |
 | Ilʹi︠a︡ Gililov - 2003 - Страниц: 502
...Club, and playwright Francis Beaumont speaks of those meetings in his poetic "Letter 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 whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit inagest, And... | |
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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... 
