 | John Timbs - 1872 - 646 pagina’s
...whole wit in a jest, And had resolv'd to live a fool the rest Of his dull life ; then when there hath been thrown Wit able enough to justify the town For...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... | |
 | John Timbs - 1872 - 646 pagina’s
...whole wit in a jest, And had resolv'd to live a fool the rest Of his dull life ; then when there hath been thrown Wit able enough to justify the town For...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... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1873 - 964 pagina’s
...!' 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... | |
 | David Masson - 1875 - 698 pagina’s
...celebrities of those days.* " 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 beou thrown Wit able enough to justify the town For three days past — wit that might warrant... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1875 - 512 pagina’s
...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...resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life ; then where there hath been thrown Wit able enough to justify the town For three days past : wit that might... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1875 - 508 pagina’s
...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...resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life; then where there hath been thrown Wit able enough to justify the town For three days past: wit that might... | |
 | Thomas Ingoldsby, William Harness, George Hodder - 1875 - 350 pagina’s
...our constant intercourse — " What things have we seen Done at the ! 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 ! " Mayhew will not fail to remember how he and I, as " the boys " (so called) of the party assembled... | |
 | Thomas Ingoldsby, William Harness, George Hodder - 1875 - 354 pagina’s
...our constant intercourse — " What things have we seen Done at the ! 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!" Mayhew will not fail to remember how he and I, as " the boys " (so called) of the party assembled round... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1876 - 288 pagina’s
...no more. THE MERMAID. 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 ; that when there hath been thrown Wit able enough to justify the town For three days past, — wit... | |
 | Robert Herrick - 1876 - 482 pagina’s
...whole wit in a jest, And had resolv'd to live a fool the rest Of his dull life ; then when there hath been thrown Wit able enough to justify the town For...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... | |
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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. 
