 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, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 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 subtile flame, As if... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1878 - 560 lapas
...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Henry Norman Hudson - 1880 - 570 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... | |
 | George Walter Thornbury - 1880 - 604 lapas
...a noble record left of the wit combats here 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 subtle flame, As... | |
 | George Gilfillan - 1881 - 744 lapas
...subtlest pate, Amongst us, may perchance equivocate 142 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1881 - 304 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 it... | |
 | 1881 - 578 lapas
...me this t It is our country style) : in this warm shine I lie, and dream of your full Mermaid wine.. ^ ^ lw/ tenuls, which men do the best With the best gamesters. What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1883 - 972 lapas
...Jonson, which are not so well known but that they must be quoted here : •• Melbinks, the liltle wit I had is lost Since I saw you ; for wit is like...best With the best gamesters. What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full or subtile flame, As if... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1883 - 544 lapas
...says of that fair company. He writes to him from the country : — " Methinks the little wit I had ia lost Since I saw you ; for wit is like a rest Held up at Tennis, which men do the beat With the best gamesters. What things have we seen Done at the ' Mermaid ! ' heard words that have... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1883 - 596 lapas
...known but that they must be quoted here : '• Methinks, the tittle wit I had is lost Since I saw you j for wit is like a rest Held up at tennis, which men do the best Wilh the best gamesters. What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! beard words that have been So... | |
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