 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 and Times of John Milton - Page 32by William Carlos Martyn - 1866 - 307 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Peter Paradox (pseud.) - 1860 - 296 pages
...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." Mermaid Club, from Blackwood. THE evening on which the neAV debating society, established on the temporary... | |
 | Francis Beaumont - 1862 - 732 pages
...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 had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life; then when there hath been known Wit able enough to justify the town For three days past ; wit that might warrant be * Fur the... | |
 | Alexander Smith - English essays - 1863 - 338 pages
...Done at the Mermaid ? Heard words that hath been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his...resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life." Then there is the " Literary Club," with Johnson, and Garrick, and Burke, and Reynolds, and Goldsmith sitting... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1863 - 846 pages
...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." He died on the 15th of March, 1615, in the 30th year of his age, leaving behind him one daughter, who,... | |
 | William Harvey - London (England) - 1864 - 412 pages
...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, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life; then, when there hath heen thrown Wit ahle enough to justify the town For three days past—wit that might warrant be For... | |
 | 1856 - 502 pages
...so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to pnt his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life." We are left to imagine the contests of wit and argument between Jonson and Shakespeare, with the tantalizing... | |
 | Richard Grant White - Dramatists, English - 1865 - 450 pages
...As if that every one from whom they came 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...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 make the two next... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Richard Grant White - 1868 - 626 pages
...As if that every one from whom they came 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...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 make the two next... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1865 - 624 pages
...they camo Had meant to put his whole wit ID a jest, And had reaolv'd to live a fool the rest Of bb dull life; then when there hath been thrown Wit able...wit that might warrant be For the whole city to talk foolishiy Till that were eunn-llM. and. when that was gone. We left an air behind us which alone Was... | |
 | Francis Beaumont - 1866 - 736 pages
...full nf subtle iiiime, As if that every one from whom they came Had meant to put his whole wit ill a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life; then when there Imth been known "VVit ahle enough to justify the town For three days past ; wit that mi^ht warrant... | |
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