 DOUBTLESS the pleasure is as great Of being cheated, as to cheat ; As lookers-on feel most delight That least perceive a juggler's sleight, And still, the less they understand, The more...  Hudibras - Strana 248podľa Samuel Butler - 1850 - Počet stránok 498Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | 1802 - Počet stránok 448
...And by the greatness of his noise, Prov'd fittest for his country's choice. V. 469. DOCTOR BRODUM. Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat ; Some with a med'cine and receipt Are drawn to nibble at the bait. C. jri— M. MR. ADDINGTON. Quoth... | |
 | 1803 - Počet stránok 222
...grows every day more scanty. Mr. Solid has found an opportunity every night to repeat from Hudibras, Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated, as to cheat. And from Waller. Poets lr.se half the praise they would have got, Were it but known that they discreetly... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - Počet stránok 924
...In the wily snake Whatever sleights, none would suspicious mark, As from his wit and native subtilty Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated, as to cheat ; As lockers on feel most delight, That least perceive the juggler's sleigh. HuJib. Good humour is... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - Počet stránok 386
...grows every day more scanty. Mr. Solid has found an opportunity every night to repeat from Hudibras, Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated, as to cheat ; and from Waller, Poets lose half the praise they would have got, Were it but known that they discreetly... | |
 | Robert Deverell - 1813 - Počet stránok 666
...the science estrologic ; Till falling from dispute to fight, The conj'rer's worsted by the knight. DOUBTLESS the pleasure is as great Of being cheated, as to cheat : As lookers-on feel most delight, That least perceive a juggler's slight; And still the less they... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - Počet stránok 484
...grows every day more scanty. Mr. Solid has found an opportunity every night to repeat, from Hudibras, Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated, as to cheat ; and from Waller, Poets lose half the praise they would have got, Were it but known that they discreetly... | |
 | Chandos Leigh (1st baron.) - 1816 - Počet stránok 124
...Talent* is au portion of that hallowed fire," open the eyes of those who are now self-blinded.— " Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat." * In former times, when men were trampling on every law, and justice ^was ill-understood, or perhaps... | |
 | Robert Deverell - 1816 - Počet stránok 304
...the science astrologic ; Till falling from dispute to fight, The conj'rer's worsted by the knight. DOUBTLESS the pleasure is as great Of being cheated, as to cheat : As lookers-on feel most delight, That least perceive a juggler's slight; And still the less they... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - Počet stránok 428
...grows every day more scanty. Mr. Solid has found an opportunity every night to repeat, from Hudibras, Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated, as to cheat ; and from Waller, Poets lose half the praise they would have got, Were it but known that they discreetly... | |
 | 1821 - Počet stránok 658
...week, and plunges again into the delirium of hopeful expectation. In this view of the subject, then, " Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat." La Harpe stupidly enquires, " Si elk (la loterie) n'etcint pat dans le peupk tout imulation louable—... | |
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