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 - Page 248by Samuel Butler - 1850 - 498 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1802 - 448 pages
...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... | |
| English essays - 1803 - 222 pages
...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 - English language - 1805 - 924 pages
...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 - 386 pages
...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 - 666 pages
...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 - English literature - 1816 - 484 pages
...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 - 124 pages
...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 - 304 pages
...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 - 428 pages
...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 - 658 pages
...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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