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 ... - 第 137 頁John Tobin, Elizabeth Benger 著 - 1820 - 444 頁完整檢視 - 關於此書
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 802 頁
...the most ; Methinks the little wit I had is lost Since I saw you, for a wit is like a rest, Held up a tennis, which men do the best With the best gamesters : what things have we tetn Done at the Mermaid ? H^ard words that have been So nimble, and so full ofsubtill flame, As if... | |
| Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont - 1811 - 712 頁
...at one time boast? where animated each by the other's presence, they even excelled themselves; • " For wit is like a rest, Held up at tennis, which men...best With the best gamesters. What things have we seeii Done at the Mermaid ! heard words that hare been So nimble and so full of subtle flame, As if... | |
| Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont - 1811 - 728 頁
...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 you ; for wit is like a rest Held up at tennis,5 which men do the best With the best gamesters : what things have we seen Done at the Mermaid... | |
| Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1811 - 712 頁
...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 you ; for wit is like a rest Held up at tennis,5 which men do the best With the best gamesters: what things have we seen Done at the Mermaid... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1872 - 480 頁
...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... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1820 - 432 頁
...country style : — In this warm shi I lie, and dream of your full Mermaid wiiie. * * * " • • . • 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 subtle ñame, As if... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1821 - 374 頁
...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 you, for wit is like a rest * So in Rochester's Epigram. " Sternhold and Hopkins had great qualms, When they translated David's... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1821 - 372 頁
...'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 you, for wit is like a rest * So in Rochester's Epigram. " Sternhold and Hopkins had great qualms, When they translated David's... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1821 - 380 頁
...Rochester^ Epigram. " Sternhold and Hopkins had great qualms, When they translated David's Psalms." Held up at tennis, which men do the 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 Oxberry - 1822 - 430 頁
...our country style : — in this warm shine I lie, 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 in- the Mermaid ? Hard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if... | |
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