| William Hone - Almanacs, English - 1826 - 892 pages
...lose such pastime in th« park? Smiling, the answered me : " ' I wist, all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato. Alas ! good-folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant/ " ' And how came you, madam,' quoth I, ' to... | |
| William Hone - 1826 - 882 pages
...versified efi'usioii in the park ? Smiling, she answered me : " ' I wist, all their sport in the park 2 ! good-folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.' " ' And how came you, madam,' quoth I, ' to... | |
| William Hone - Calendars - 1868 - 846 pages
...Children in. the Wood." in the park ? Smiling, the answered me : " ' I wist, all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato. Alas ! good-folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.' " ' And how came you, madam,' quoth I, ' to... | |
| Samuel Burder - Women - 1827 - 482 pages
...lose such pastime " in the park? Smiling, she answered me : ' 1 wist " all their sport in the park is but a shadow, to that " pleasure that I find in...chiefly allure " you unto it, seeing not many women, and but very " few men, have attained thereunto?' ' I will tell " you,' quoth she, ' and tell you a... | |
| Charles Chadwicke Jones - Great Britain - 1828 - 458 pages
...folk, they never felt what true pleasure means.'' Ascham then inquired, " and how came you, madam, to this deep knowledge of pleasure, and what did chiefly...seeing not many women, but very few men, have attained thereunto?"—"I will tell you," she replied, " and tell you a truth, which perchance you will marvel... | |
| William Hone - Days - 1830 - 878 pages
...lose such pastiwa in the park ? Smiling, she answered me : " ' I wist, all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato. Alas! good-folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.' " ' And how came you, madam,' quoth I, ' to this... | |
| Samuel Rogers - 1830 - 516 pages
...would lose such pastime in the park Ï Smiling, she answered me, " I wist, all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato." — Ror.rR ASCHA.M. Note 11, page 12, col. 2. Then ie the Age of Admiration. — Dante in his old ago... | |
| Edward VI (King of England), Queen Catharine Parr (consort of Henry VIII, King of England), Anne Askew, Lady Jane Grey - Dissenters, Religious - 1831 - 504 pages
...there needs must be in the park, at which smiling, she answered, " I wist all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato....good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant." This naturally leading him to inquire how a lady of her age had attained to such a depth of pleasure,... | |
| English literature - 1840 - 676 pages
...lose such pastime in the park ?' " Smiling she answered me : " ' I wis all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato. Alas ! good folk, they never knew what true pleasure meant.' " ' And how came you, madam,' quoth I, ' to arrive at this deep knowledge... | |
| Hartley Coleridge - Biography - 1833 - 764 pages
...park ? Smiling, she answered me, " I wist all their sport in the park is but a shadow of that pleasure I find in Plato. Alas, good folk, they never felt...knowledge of pleasure ? And what did chiefly allure you uuto it, seeing not many women, and but very few men, have attained thereunto ? " " I will tell you,"... | |
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