 | Samuel Richardson - 1902 - 372 pagina’s
...ease to my conscience, thou must believe. And if what Hudibras tells us is true, the dear fugitive has also abundance of pleasure to come. Doubtless the...they understand, The more admire the sleight of hand. Thursday, June 8. MB. LOVELACE, — Do not give me cause to dread your return. If you would not that... | |
 | Samuel Richardson - 1902 - 368 pagina’s
...ease to my conscience, thou must believe. And if what Hudibras tells us is true, the dear fugitive has also abundance of pleasure to come. Doubtless the...they understand, The more admire the sleight of hand. Thursday, June 8. MR. LOVELACE, — Do not give me cause to dread your return. If you would not that... | |
 | Samuel Richardson - 1902 - 372 pagina’s
...ease to my conscience, thou must believe. And if what Hudibras tells us is true, the dear fugitive has also abundance of pleasure to come. Doubtless the...still the less they understand, The more admire the slight of hand. This my dear juggler's letter to me ; the other inner letter sent by Will. Thursday,... | |
 | Samuel Richardson - 1902 - 376 pagina’s
...ease to my conscience, thou must believe. And if what Hudibras tells us is true, the dear fugitive has also abundance of pleasure to come. Doubtless the...juggler's sleight ; And still the less they understand, This my dear juggler's letter to me ; the other inner letter sent by Will. Thursday, June 8. MR. LOVELACE,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1902 - 488 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | 1893 - 776 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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, 1 6)... | |
 | William Hogarth - 1908 - 256 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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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Who shall most deceive and cheat the other ? So, I thank my stars, we are upon a par at last, as to this point, which is a great ease to my conscience, thou must believe. And if what Hudibras tells us is true, the dear fugitive has also abundance of pleasure... 
