 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
 | John Addington Symonds - 1886 - 218 lapas
...the epoch gathered round him ; and of their meetings we have a fit memorial in Beaumont's verse : — 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 I heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1887 - 596 lapas
...Jonson, which are not so i»ell known but that they must be quoted here : '• Methinks, the little wit 1 had is lost Since I saw you ; for wit is like a rest...best With the best gamesters. What things have we seei Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtile flame, As if... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - 1887 - 572 lapas
...me this I H is our country style) : in this warm shine I lie, and dream of your full Mermaid wine. l, Ch , dry, sarcastic, and friendly I Do , mild, slow to move, and gentlemanly I P np at tennis, which men do the best With the best gamesters. What thinps have we peen Dono at the Mermaid... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1888 - 232 lapas
...epoch gathered round him ; and of their meetings we have a fit memorial in Beaumont's verse : — .j Methinks the little wit I had is lost Since I saw...Held up at tennis, which men do the best With the Ijest gamesters. What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid 1 heard words that have been So nimble,... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1888 - 486 lapas
...celebrated lines to Ben Jonson : " Methinks the little wit I htul is lost Since I saw you; for wit is like n rest Held up at tennis, which men do the best With the best gamesters. What things have we seen Done nt the Mermniil ! heard words that have been So nimble, m,d so fali of subtile Hame, As if... | |
 | Robert Nares - 1888 - 524 lapas
...which they seem to mean a match, or set ; but this has nothing to do with the phrase in question : For wit is like a rest, Held up at tennis, which men do the hebt Wilh the best gamesten. Ценит. Lttlrr to В. Jo:is., x, SCO. REST, certainly meant also the... | |
 | Thomas Archer - 1893 - 560 lapas
...to the Mermaid — ii 2 " Methinks the little wit I had is lo»t Since I saw you ; for wit is like u rest Held up at tennis, which men do the best With the best gamesters. What things have we seen Pone at the Mermaid ! Heard words that have been So nimble and so full of subtle flame, As if... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1895 - 482 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 you ; for wit is like a rest Held np at tennis, which men do the best With the best gamesters. What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid... | |
 | John Addington Symonds - 1898 - 216 lapas
...the epoch gathered round him ; and of their meetings we have a fit memorial in Beaumont's verse :— 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 1 heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if-that... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - 1898 - 560 lapas
...look for a rejoinder. " The best tennis players," says Sir Fopling Flutter, "make the best matches." For wit is 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... | |
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