 | David Masson - 1859 - 714 pages
...celebrities of those days.2 " 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...fool the rest Of his dull life ; then, when there hath been thrown Wit able enough to justify the town For three days past — wit that might warrant... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 554 pages
...! Hard 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,...a fool the rest Of his dull life. Then, when there hath been thrown Wit, able enough to justify the town For three days past, — wit, that might warrant... | |
 | David Masson - 1859 - 714 pages
...words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As If that every one from whence they cama Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had...fool the rest Of his dull life ; then, when there hath been thrown Wit able enough to justify the town For three days past — wit that might warrant... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1860 - 392 pages
...With the best gamesters : 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...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... | |
 | Mrs. A. T. Thomson - 1860 - 370 pages
...the surface : — "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...resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life and when that was gone, We left an air behind us, which alone ' Was able to make the two next companies... | |
 | Peter Paradox (pseud.) - 1860 - 296 pages
...within a range of twenty miles round his lodge. CHAPTER II. " Ridendum dicere verum quis vetat." " So nimble and so full of subtle flame, As if that every...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... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1861 - 580 pages
...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...fool the rest Of his dull life ; then, when there hath been thrown Wit able enough to justify the town For three days past ; wit that might warrant be... | |
 | Francis Beaumont - 1862 - 732 pages
...! 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,...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... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1863 - 846 pages
...Jonson, Beaumont writes, " What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid 1 heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every...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 - 1864 - 412 pages
...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...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... | |
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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. 
