 | Samuel Richardson - 1902 - 376 páginas
...believe. And if what Hudibras tells us is true, the dear fugitive has also abundance of pleasure to come. Doubtless the pleasure is as great In being cheated, as to cheat. As lookers-on find most delight, Who least perceive the juggler's sleight ; And still the less they... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1902 - 488 páginas
...he therefore gives them none. THE TIMES NEWSPAPER ON THE CONNEXION BETWEEN TOAD-EATERS AND TYRANTS ' Doubtless, the pleasure is as great ' In being cheated as to cheat.' Jan. 12, 1817. WE some time ago promised our friend, Mr. Robert Owen, an explanation of some of the... | |
 | Samuel Richardson - 1902 - 372 páginas
...believe. And if what Hudibras tells us is true, the dear fugitive has also abundance of pleasure to come. Doubtless the pleasure is as great In being cheated, as to cheat. As lookers-on find most delight, Who least perceive the juggler's sleight ; And still the less they... | |
 | Samuel Richardson - 1902 - 368 páginas
...believe. And if what Hudibras tells us is true, the dear fugitive has also abundance of pleasure to come. Doubtless the pleasure is as great In being cheated, as to cheat. As lookers-on find most delight, Who least perceive the juggler's sleight; And still the less they... | |
 | 1893 - 776 páginas
...obey. English literature is full of illustrations of the old pronunciation of ea, as in " Hudibras :" " Doubtless the pleasure is as great In being cheated as to cheat," — which was then a perfect rhyme. In the " Rape of the Lock" tea (tay) rhymes with obey, and in Cowper's... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1904 - 458 páginas
...English literature is full of illustrations of the old pronunciation of ea, as in " Hudibras," — " Doubtless the pleasure is as great In being cheated as to cheat," — which was then a perfect rhyme. In the " Rape of the Lock " tea (tay) rhymes with obey, and in... | |
 | Erich Poetzsche - 1907 - 132 páginas
...us is true, the dear fugitive has also abundance of pleasure to come (Part. II, Canto III, 1—6): Doubtless the pleasure is as great In being cheated as to cheat. As lookers on find most delight, Who least perceive a juggler's slight. . . . etc. . . . (Clar. V,... | |
 | William Hogarth - 1908 - 256 páginas
...may be equal between the bubbler and the bubbled; at least this seems to have been Butler's opinion: Doubtless the pleasure is as great In being cheated, as to cheat. CHAPTER XII OF LIGHT AND SHADE, AND THE MANNER IN WHICH OBJECTS ARE EXPLAINED TO THE EYE BY THEM Although... | |
 | Otto Jespersen - 1909 - 512 páginas
...everyday words. That great rimed with cheat in the 17th c., is shown by two well-known lines from Hudibras (Doubtless the pleasure is as great, In being cheated as to cheat). Pope rimes it both with state, fate, and with eat. B 1766 and S 1780 have the usual a-sound in great,... | |
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Doubtless the pleasure is as great In being cheated, as to cheat. As lookers-on find most delight, Who least perceive the juggler's sleight ; And still the less they understand, The more admire the sleight of hand. 
