 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
 | Charles Knight - 1868 - 578 lapas
...convivial intercourse of some of the illustrious band to whom the young dramatist refers : — " Mcthinks the little wit I had is lost Since I saw you; for...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 - 1869 - 380 lapas
...this ! It is our country style) : — in this warm shine I He, 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 ! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1869 - 366 lapas
...is our country style) : — in this warm shine I lie, and dream of your full Mermaid wine. McthinVs the little wit I had is lost Since I saw you; for...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1870 - 578 lapas
...rejoinder. " The best tennis-players," says Sir Fopling Flutter, " make the best matches." • For wit ia like a rest Held up at tennis, which men do the best With the best players. We hear it often said of a great author, or a great actress, that they are very stupid people... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1872 - 488 lapas
...that he had our Poet, among others, in his eye, when he wrote those celebrated lines to Ben 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... | |
 | John Timbs - 1872 - 646 lapas
...we 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... | |
 | John Timbs - 1872 - 646 lapas
...we 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... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1872 - 582 lapas
...his celebrated epistle to Jonson, Hays of that fair company. He writes to him from the country : " 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... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1875 - 508 lapas
...the subtlest pate Amongst us, may perchance equivocate At selling of a horse, and that's the most. 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 subtle flame, As if... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1875 - 512 lapas
...the subtlest pate Amongst us, may perchance equivocate At selling of a horse, and that's the most. 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 subtle flame, As if... | |
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