 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 understand, The more th  The Humbugs of the World - Página 220por Phineas Taylor Barnum - 1866 - 424 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Samuel Butler, Thomas Park - 1808 - 506 páginas
...; Till falling from dispnte to fight, The Conjnrer's worsted by the Knight. DOUBTLESS the pleasnre is as great Of being cheated, as to cheat ; As lookers-on feel most delight, That least perceive a jnggler's sleight, And still the less they nnderstand, The more 1 1 1' admire his sleight of hand.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 páginas
...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 páginas
...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,...feel most delight, That least perceive a juggler's slight; And still the less they understand, The more th' admire his slight of hand. Some with a noise,... | |
 | Robert Deverell - 1816 - 304 páginas
...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,...feel most delight, That least perceive a juggler's slight; And still the less they understand, The more th' admire his slight of hand. .. ' Insnar'd and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 484 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1819 - 402 páginas
...astrologick ; Till falling from dispute to Jight, The Conjurer's worsted by the Knight. HUDIBRAS. CANTO III. .DOUBTLESS the pleasure is as great Of being cheated,...feel most delight, That least perceive a juggler's slight ; This whole Canto is designed to expose astrologers, fortune-tellers, and conjurers. In banter... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 428 páginas
...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 páginas
...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—... | |
 | 1821 - 656 páginas
...week, and plunges again into the delirium of hopeful expectation. In this view ofthe subject, then, " Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat." La Harpe stupidly enquires, " Si elle (la loterie) neteint pas dans le pcuple tout tmulation louable... | |
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