 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 Deane Punchard - 1899 - 180 lapas
...others. A record of the contests of wit at this tavern is left in an epistle from 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 if... | |
 | Edward Arber - 1899 - 334 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 1 1. THOMAS FULLER, in his a Spanish great... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 554 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... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 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... | |
 | 1900 - 476 lapas
...nimble as his own. It was to him in memory of such occasions that Beaumont wrote 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! " And many years afterward Hernck sang an echoing strain: "Ah Ben! Say how... | |
 | Edward Arber - 1901 - 358 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 1 i. THOMAS FULLER, in his a Spanish great... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1902 - 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1902 - 444 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 Hazlitt - 1903 - 536 lapas
...look for a rejoinder. ' The best tennisplayers,' 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... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1907 - 654 lapas
...warm shine I lie and dream of your full Mermaid Wine ! 6 M. thinks the little wit I had is lost 40 Since I saw you ! For wit is like a rest Held up at...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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