 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...  The Complete Poems of Robert Herrick - Page lxiiiby Robert Herrick - 1876Full view - About this book
 | Francis Beaumont - 1750 - 560 pages
...Warrant be' For the whole City to talk foolijhly Till that were cancett'd; and when that was gone We lejt an Air behind us, which alone Was able to make the two next Companies Right witty; tho' but downright Fools, meerWife. Beaum/mf's Letter to Jonfok, Vol. xp 366. Hitherto the Reader has... | |
 | William Godwin - Great Britain - 1804 - 554 pages
...cancell'd ; and', when that was CHAP. xxxvi. gone, , , . We left an air behind us which alone 137*. Was able' to make the two next companies Right witty; though but downright fools, mere wise. , VERSES OF BEAUMONT TO JONSON, annexed to the Comedy of the Nice Valour or the Passionate... | |
 | William Godwin - Great Britain - 1804 - 536 pages
...were cancell'd; and, when that was CHAP gone, XXXVI 'We left an air behind us which alone : 13 7*Was able' to make the two next companies Right witty; though but downright fools, mere wise. VERSES OF BEAUMONT TO JONSON, anilCXed to the Comedy of the Nice Valour or the Passionate... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1811 - 712 pages
...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...make the two next companies Right witty ; though but downright,/bo/i, mere vise." BEAUMONT'S LETTER to JONS OH, vol. x. Hitherto the reader has received... | |
 | Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont - English drama - 1811 - 712 pages
...at the Mermaid ! heard words that hare been So nimble and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole...make the two next companies Right witty; though but downrightyook, mere wise." BEAUMONT'S LETTER to JONSOJT, vol. x. Hitherto the reader has received only... | |
 | Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont - English drama - 1811 - 728 pages
...days past ; wit that might warrant be For the whole city to talk foolishly 'Till that were canccll'd ; and when that was gone \ We left an air behind us,...make the two next companies Right witty ; though but downright/Ws, mere wise." BEAUMONT'S LETTER to JONSOM, vol. x. Hitherto the reader has received only... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1812 - 562 pages
...the moral constitution of his mind, how many works of genius would be removed from our admiration! Was able to make the two next companies Right witty; though but downright fools, mere wise. Seward, in quoting this passage in his preface, exclaims, with considerable eloquence, and... | |
 | John Tobin, Elizabeth Benger - Authors, English - 1820 - 470 pages
...past — wit 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 —...Right witty, though but downright fools, more wise. Beaumont's letter to Ben Jonson. is impossible not to detect in its picturesque features, the homely,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1820 - 432 pages
....•'.,' For the whole city to talL. foolishly • , . • ,¡ ., i Till that were cancelled, a;id when that was gone, , We left an air behind us, which...":•! Right witty; — though but downright fools, mere wise. The other celebrated resort of the great wits ofthat time, was the. Devil tavern, in Fleet-street,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Dramatists, English - 1821 - 372 pages
...at the Mermaid ! Hard 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...Right witty, though but downright fools more wise." I shall not in this place repeat Marlowe's celebrated song, " Come live with me and be my love," nor... | |
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