| William Hazlitt - 1824 - 414 páginas
...lighting it with a lens in the rays of the sun, and at every puff fancying that they undermined the Boroughmongers, as Trim blew up the army opposed to...great names of the Elizabethan age. What a falling off is here ! Our ancestors of that period seem not only to be older by two hundred years, and proportionably... | |
| Sholto Percy, Reuben Percy - 1824 - 392 páginas
...Fuller calls them, which in those days took place at Mermaid Tavern, where " there hath' been shown Wit able enough to justify the town For three days past, — wit that might warrant For the whole city to talk foolishly, Till that were cancell'd, and when that was gone, We left an... | |
| Richard Ryan - 1826 - 336 páginas
...put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolv'd to live a fool the rest Of his dull Hie. Then , where there hath been thrown Wit, able enough to justify...might warrant be 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... | |
| Richard Ryan - 1826 - 338 páginas
...put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolv'd to live a fool the rest Of his dull lire. Then, where there hath been thrown Wit, able enough to justify...days past, — wit, that might warrant be For the whofe city to talk foolishly Till that were cancell'd, and when that was gone, We left an air behind... | |
| Richard Ryan - 1826 - 334 páginas
...put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolv'd to live a fool the rest Of his dull life. Then, where there hath been thrown Wit, able enough to justify...For three days past, — wit, that might warrant be I'or the whole city to talk foolishly Till that were cancell'd, and when that was gone, We left an... | |
| 1826 - 374 páginas
...called the Mermaid, 'which was situated in Cornhill. There, as Beaumont tell us, " hath been shown. Wit able enough to justify the town For three days past, — wit that might warrant For the whole city to talk foolishly Till that were cancell'd ; and when that was gone, We left an... | |
| 1832 - 792 páginas
...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 thrown Wit able enough...might warrant be For the whole city to talk foolishly Till that were cancell'd ; and when that was gone, WE LEFT AN AIR BEHIND US, WBICH ALONE WAS ABLE TO... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1834 - 342 páginas
...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 thrown Wit, able enough...might warrant be For the whole city to talk foolishly Till that were cancelled, and when that was gone, We left an air behind us, which alone Was able to... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1835 - 350 páginas
...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 thrown Wit, able enough...might warrant be For the whole city to talk foolishly Till that were cancelled, and when that was gone, We left an air behind us, which alone Was able to... | |
| 1835 - 550 páginas
...life; then where there had been tlirown Wit able i-Hough to justify the town For three Hays mst, — wit that might warrant be For the whole city to talk foolishly, Till that w-eri! cancell'd; and when that was gone. We U-ft an air tit-hind us which alone Was able... | |
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