 Methinks the little wit I had is lost Since 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!  Memoirs of Mr. John Tobin ... - 137. lappuseautors: John Tobin, Elizabeth Benger - 1820 - 444 lapasPilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 lapas
...the subtlest pate, Amongst us, may perchance equivocate At selling of a horse, and that's the most. e Pity to conjoin with those, Then who had heard the...had she not been fair, and thus unkind, My muse ha be*t gamesters : what things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ; heard words that have been So nimble,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 232 lapas
...to knights; 'Tis this that keeps our minds fit for our states, A medicine to obey our magistrates. Methinks the little wit I had is lost Since I saw...best With the best gamesters. What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! Hard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtile flame, As if... | |
 | 1845 - 410 lapas
...have a noble record left of the wit-combats in the celebrated epistle of Beaumont to Jonson : — " Methinks the little wit I had is lost Since I saw...best With the best gamesters : what things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtile flame, As if... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 490 lapas
...to knights; 'Tis this that keeps our minds fit for our states, A medicine to obey our magistrates. Methinks the little wit I had is lost Since I saw...best With the best gamesters. What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! Hard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtile flame, As if... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 520 lapas
...is our country style : — In this warm shine I lie, and dream of your full Mermaid wine. ******** Methinks the little wit I had, is lost, Since I saw...best With the best gamesters. What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! Hard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if... | |
 | 1845 - 570 lapas
...have a noble record left of the wit-combats in the celebrated epistle of Beaumont to Jonson ; — " Methinks the little wit I had is lost Since I saw...best With the best gamesters : what things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtile flame, As if... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 540 lapas
...style : — In this warm shine I lie, and dream of your full Mermaid wine. • •••••*• Methinks the little wit I had, is lost, Since I saw...best With the best gamesters. What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! Hard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if... | |
 | Eliphalet L. Rice - 1846 - 432 lapas
...Jonson • and each was animated by the other's genius, as Beaumont's Letter to Jonson testifies : For wit is like a rest, Held up at tennis, which men...best 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 lapas
...subtlest pate, Amongst us, may perchance equivocate At selling of a horse, and that s the most. Methinke I assure seen Done at the Mermaid ; heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 lapas
...the subtlest pate, Amongst us, may perchance equivocate At selling of a horse, and that's the most. that have done! What could the beet gamesters : what things have we eeen Done at the Mermaid ; heard words that have been So nimble,... | |
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