 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...  To-day - 102 psl.redagavo - 1890Visos knygos peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
 | 1840 - 652 psl.
...you've been saying. (Mills.) ROUND,/or 3 Voices. — TRAVERS. DOUBTLESS the pleasure is as great In being cheated as to cheat ; As lookers-on feel most delight That least perceive the juggler's sleight ; And still the less they understand, The more they admire his sleight of hand.... | |
 | 1877 - 506 psl.
...trick has been played upon you, you are tempted to confess, with the author of Hudibras, that— " Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat." A case in which the art of plagiarism appears almost if not quite at its best is to be found in a sermon... | |
 | 1843 - 676 psl.
...inherited the greater part of his very handsome fortune ? 393 THE PEDLAR POET. BY GEORGE RAYMOND. " Doubtless, the pleasure is as great Of being cheated, as to cheat." — BUTLER. PREPARING to quit the agreeable village of Ryde, for Gosport, there to meet, for the last... | |
 | 1844 - 480 psl.
...UALANCBD BOG. r'.r..;l Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being chenled as to cheat; As lookers on feel most delight, That least perceive a juggler's...sleight, And still the less they understand. The more they admire his sleight of hand. HtlDIMRAS. As the multifarious performances of the *' Nimble jugglers,... | |
 | 1859 - 626 psl.
...not even made uneasy by the checks of his own conscience. I would gladly think that in most cases, " Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat." I would gladly think that the man who has done another feels it as blistering to remember the fact... | |
 | Confessions - 1846 - 418 psl.
...those of Herr Rudolph Lugelkopf. CHAPTER VI. " A Daniel ! yea, a very Daniel !" — SHAKESPEARE. " Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated...sleight ; And still the less they understand, The more they admire his sleight of hand." BUTLER. " Bome shall perish — write that word In the blood which... | |
 | Confessions - 1846 - 418 psl.
...characterized those of Herr Rudolph Lugelkopf. CHAPTER VI. " A Daniel! yea, a very Daniel!"—SHAKESPEARE. " Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated...sleight; And still the less they understand, The more they admire his sleight of hand." BUTLER. " Borne shall perish—write that word In the blood which... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1846 - 324 psl.
...science astrologic : Till falling from dispate to fight, The ConJ'rer's worsted by the Knight DOUBTLE88 the pleasure is as great Of being cheated, as to cheat...juggler's sleight; And still the less they understand, '" 5 The more th' admire his sleight of hand. Some with a noise, and greasy light, Are snapt, as men... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 psl.
...language, and can never be separated from it Such are the opening lines of Part IL canto three — gather the rose-buds,' call up a summer landscape, with youth, beaut lookers on feel most delight That least perceive a juggler's sleight; And still the less they understand,... | |
 | John Frederick Wood - 1862 - 194 psl.
...name — can be found to believe them, realising the words of Butler, if we quote them rightly, — " Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat." — Hudibrtu. If we had inspired the first year wo wrote the confidence now placed in us, we should... | |
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