 | Henry Theodore Tuckerman - 1868 - 382 頁
...have we seen Done at the "Mermaid" ! heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtle fire, As if that every one from whom they came Had meant...resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life.' The author of Peter Wilkins was a frequent visitor at an hostel near Clifford's Inn, and Dr. Johnson... | |
 | Mary Elizabeth Braddon - 1868 - 668 頁
...words that have been So nimble and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they cam e Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had...resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life." BROOKES'S. This club, originally a gaming club, was founded in Pall Mall in 1764, on the site of the... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1869 - 366 頁
...I saw you; for wit is like a rest Held up at tennis, which men do the best With the best gamesters. What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard...jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his duli life then when there hath been tfirown Wit able enough to justify the town For three days past,... | |
 | Belgravia - 1869 - 776 頁
...words that have been So nimble and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they cnme Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had...resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life." The APOLLO Club, another of Ben Jonson's favourite haunts, was held at the old Devil Tavern (as is... | |
 | Kate Sanborn - 1869 - 306 頁
...so full of subtle flame, As if they every one from whence they came, Had meant to put his whole soul in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life." Jonson, who appreciated Shakespeare both as friend and antagonist, said of him, " He was not for an... | |
 | sir John Scott Keltie - 1870 - 588 頁
...Tavern, he having written a lively poetical description of the ' wit-combats' which took place there. ' that I lose it To win a better : even thy malice serves...happiness, where I shall Look down with scorn on thee, . . . It has been conjectured that Beaumont and Fletcher commenced their literary partnership about... | |
 | 1870 - 610 頁
...Tavern, he having written a lively poetical description of the ' wit-combats' which took place there. ' What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard...resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life.' . . . It has been conjectured that Beaumont and Fletcher commenced their literary partnership about... | |
 | Oliver Optic - 1870 - 974 頁
...describes the meetings of the club in these words : — " What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid 1 heard words that have been So nimble, and so full...resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life." w. GEORGE SANDYS, an Englishman, who travelled in the East in the early part of the seventeenth century,... | |
 | 1900 - 1070 頁
...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,...resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life. The age was eminently social in instinct and habit ; society, in the modern sense of the word, was... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1872 - 582 頁
...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 whom they came,...rest Of his dull life; then, when there hath been shown Wit able enough to justify the town For three days past; wit that might warrant be For the whole... | |
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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... 
