| Edward Josiah Stearns - 1853 - 328 páginas
...the proceeds in a new venture, and a paying one, too, for there is no end to human gullibility : " Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat," if not a little greater ; and this innocent pleasure Mrs. Stowe has very benevolently ministered to,... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1854 - 620 páginas
...to make themselves diverting without being immoral. One may apply to these authors that passage in Waller, Poets lose half the praise they would have got, Were it but known what they discreetly blot. As nothing is more easy than to be a wit with all the abovementioned liberties, it requires some genius... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1854 - 624 páginas
...to make themselves diverting without being immoral. One may apply to these authors that passage in Waller, Poets lose half the praise they would have got, Were it but known what they discreetly blot. What I have here said is not ouly in regard to the public, but with an eye to my particular correspondent,... | |
| 1854 - 630 páginas
...being immoral. One may apply to these authors that passage in Waller, — No. 179.] THE SPECTATOR. SI "Poets lose half the praise they would have got, Were it but known what they discreetly blot." As nothing is more easy than to be a wit, with all the above-mentioned liberties, it requires same... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1854 - 364 páginas
...hanged who unhappily fell under that name. In the first place, the old woman must be prodigiously * Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat ; And lookers-on feel more delight Thai least perceive the juggler's sleight. — HDDIBHAS. — B. ugly ;... | |
| Samuel Butler, George Gilfillan - 1854 - 296 páginas
...the science astrologic ; Till, falling from dispute to 6ght, 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 sleight ; And still the less they... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1856 - 422 páginas
...of his memory, he lias for some time neglected his books, and his stock grows every day more scanty. Mr. Solid has found an opportunity every night to...great Of being cheated, as to cheat ; and from Waller, a Poets lose half the praise they would have got, Were it but known what they discreetly blot. " Dick... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1856 - 622 páginas
...to make themselves diverting without being immoral. One may apply to these authors that pasBage in Waller, Poets lose half the praise they would have got, Were it but known what they discreetly blot As nothing is more easy than to be a wit with all the abovementioned liberties, it requires some genius... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1854 - 542 páginas
...to make themselves diverting without being immoral. One may apply to these authors that passage in Waller, Poets lose half the praise they would have got, Were it but known what they discreetly blot. As nothing is more easy than to be a wit with all the abovementioned liberties, it requires some genius... | |
| Joseph Addison - 1856 - 628 páginas
...themselves diverting without being immoral. One may apply to these authors that passage in Waller, Poeta lose half the praise they would have got, Were it but known what they discreetly blot What I have here said is not only in regard to the public, but with an eye to my particular correspondent,... | |
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