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" 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, in three parts. Repr. of ed. of 1779 [ed. by A. Murray]. - Página 74
de Samuel Butler - 1869
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Hudibras

Samuel Butler - 1864 - 518 páginas
...astrologic. 'Till falling from dispute to fight, The conjurer's worsted by the Knight HUDIBRAS CANTO III.* DOUBTLESS the pleasure is as great Of being cheated, as to cheat ;t As lookers-on feel most delight, That least perceive a juggler's Bight, And still the less they...
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Ten Days in a French Parsonage in the Summer of 1863, Volume 2

George Musgrave Musgrave - 1864 - 302 páginas
...is mere fancy ; but the vendor and the buyer are well matched. The unanimity is wonderful, and — " Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat." But ' ' pauli) majora canamus." Before half-past six o'clock the "parloir" or reception-room was, thrown...
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Familiar Quotations: Being an Attempt to Trace to Their Source Passages and ...

John Bartlett - 1865 - 504 páginas
...And look before you ere you leap ; For as you sow, y' are like to reap.f Part ii. Canto ii. Line 501. Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated, as to cheat. Part ii. Canto iii. Line 1. He made an instrument to know If the moon shine at full or no. Part ii....
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The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries ..., Volume 31

1865 - 504 páginas
...to grief. • JANUARY. 13 less daring. The poet Butler wrote the following well-known couplet: — " Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated as to cheat." But this is more appliable to legerdemain than to labelling fruit trees. Mistakes or frauds in the...
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The British Poets, Volume 1

1866 - 390 páginas
...The Knight, with various doubts possest, To win the Lady goes in quest Of Sidrophel the Rosycrucian, To know the Dest'nies' resolution: With whom b'ing...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,...
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The Poetical Works of Samuel Butler, Volume 1

Samuel Butler - 1890 - 342 páginas
...the science astrologic ; Till, falling from dispute to right, The Conj'rer's worsted by theKnight. 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,...
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English literature and composition

Robert Demaus - 1866 - 240 páginas
...his hairy strength, And crop-full out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin sings.' (10) ' 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,...
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The Humbugs of the World

Phineas Taylor Barnum - 1866 - 368 páginas
...people, as a too general thing, like to be led into the region of mystery. As Hudibras has it — ' ' 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,...
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The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and ..., Volume 67;Volume 69

1866 - 780 páginas
...comes Trevor at last" And Trevor entered the gate, and approached them. IMPOSTUBB AND CREDULITY. " Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated, as to cheat." — HUDIBRAS. IF we are to judge by the avidity with which men in all ages have swallowed, and still...
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Dublin University Magazine

George Herbert - 1866 - 722 páginas
...comes Trevor at last." And Trevor entered the gate, and approached them. IMPOSTUKE AND CREDULITY. " Doubtless the pleasure is as great Of being cheated, as to cheat" — UUDIBRAS. IF we are to judge by the avidity with which men in all ages have swallowed, and still...
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