 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
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - 1907 - 892 lapas
...perchance equivocate At selling of a horse; and that's the most. Methinks the little wit I had is lost 414 Since I saw you; for wit is like a rest Held up at tennis, which men do the best \Vith the best gamesters. What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid/ heard words that have been... | |
 | Arthur Ransome - 1907 - 360 lapas
...Master Beaumont, who was busy with Master Fletcher in the country, writing a play. He read aloud: " Methinks the little wit I had is lost Since I saw you;" (honest fellow, Master Beaumont, generous mind!) " for wit is like a rest Held up at tennis, which... | |
 | William James Dawson, Coningsby Dawson - 1908 - 312 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... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - 1908 - 864 lapas
...perchance equivocate At selling of a horse; and that's the most. Methinks the little wit I had is lost 414 Since I saw you ; for wit is like a rest . : ....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... | |
 | Henry C. Shelley - 1909 - 496 lapas
...' full Mermaid wine," dwells upon the lack of excitement in his rural abode, and then breaks out: " Methinks the little wit I had is lost Since I saw...wit is like a rest Held up at tennis, which men do best With the best gamesters. What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard words that have... | |
 | Joseph O'Connor - 1911 - 384 lapas
...addressed to Ben Jonson from the country, where he and Fletcher were finishing two of their comedies : 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 - 1912 - 594 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... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1912 - 406 lapas
...the subtil' st 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 subtil Jiame, As if... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1913 - 206 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 - 1913 - 552 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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