 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!  Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review - Page 91891Full view - About this book
 | Thomas H. Middleton - 1996 - 68 pages
...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 - 576 pages
...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... | |
 | David Crystal, Hilary Crystal - 2000 - 604 pages
...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,... | |
 | Kristin Rygg - 2000 - 310 pages
...126-159. Beaumont hints at the secretive nature of the pursuits of the Mermaiders: "What things have we seen/ Done at the Mermaid! Heard words that have been/ So nimble, and so full of subtile flame." Chester published a collection of poems by himself and others such as Shakespeare,... | |
 | James Bednarz - 2001 - 358 pages
...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 taverns like the... | |
 | Ilʹi︠a︡ Gililov - 2003 - 502 pages
...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 full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit inagest, And had resolved to live a fool, the rest... | |
 | Alfred Leslie Rowse - 2003 - 636 pages
...boys, the Mitre and the Mermaid as the poets knew them and handed them down to us: What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtle flame, As if diat every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest. . . . CHAPTER VI SOCIAL... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 2003 - 358 pages
...1609 and 1612, by Francis Beaumont, another of the circle (if only for a time): What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid? heard words that have been so nimble, & so full of subtil flame as if that every one from whom they came had meant to put his whole wit in... | |
 | Russell A. Fraser - 568 pages
...from Cheapside. Francis Beaumont, poet and playwright, remembered this tavern: 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 everyone from whence they came, Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest And had resolved to live a... | |
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