 | Francis Beaumont - 1750 - 560 pages
...Reft, Held up at Tennis, •which Men do the bejl With the left Gamejlers. What things have wefeen Done at the Mer-maid ! heard Words that have been So nimble and fo full of fubtle Flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole Wit... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 802 pages
...subtil'st pate Amongst us, may perchance equivocate At selling of a horse, and that 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... | |
 | Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont - English drama - 1811 - 728 pages
...animated each by the other's presence, they even excelled themselves; • " For wit is like a res/, Held up at tennis, which men do the best With the...have we seen Done at the Mermaid ! heard words that hare been So nimble and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant... | |
 | Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher - 1811 - 712 pages
...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... | |
 | Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont - English drama - 1811 - 712 pages
...subtlest pate Amongst us, may perchance equivocate At selling of a horse, and that's die 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 - English drama (Comedy) - 1872 - 480 pages
...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...heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtile flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1820 - 432 pages
...: — In this warm shi I lie, and dream of your full Mermaid wiiie. * * * " • • . • Methinks the little wit I had, is lost, Since I saw you ; for...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 that every one from whom... | |
 | John Tobin, Elizabeth Benger - Authors, English - 1820 - 470 pages
...scenes almost without the intervention of a pen, from the inspiration of the social moment.* * Methinks the little wit I had is lost Since I saw you — for...best With the best gamesters. — What things have we see1!* Done at the Mermaid — heard words that have been So nimble — and so full of subtle flame,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Dramatists, English - 1821 - 380 pages
...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...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 that every one from whence... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Dramatists, English - 1821 - 372 pages
...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... | |
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What things have we seen. Done at the Mermaid !' heard words that have been So nimble. and so full of subtile flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest. And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull... 
