| William M. Dunning - Marriage - 1835 - 456 pages
...merry tale in Boccace. After salutation and duty done, with some other talk, I asked her why she should lose such pastime in the park? Smiling, she answered...sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure I find in Plato. Alas ! good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.'" Her heart, full of this... | |
| Edmund Lodge - Great Britain - 1835 - 268 pages
...be absent from the party, she answered, to use his own words, " All their sport in the park I wisse is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato — alas, good folk, they never knew what true pleasure meant." " And how," rejoined Ascham, " came you, Madam, to this deep knowledge... | |
| William Hone - Days - 1835 - 876 pages
...much delight, as some gentlemen would read a merry tale in Boccace. After salutation, and duty done, with some other talk, I asked her, why she would lose such pasliiue 31 TIIK ¿vfcUY-DAY BOOK.— JANUARY 4. m the park ? Smiling, she answered me : " ' I wist,... | |
| Hartley Coleridge - Lancashire (England) - 1836 - 774 pages
...much delight as some gentlemen would read a merry tale of Boccace. After salutation, and duty done, with some other talk, I asked her why she would lose...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 what true pleasure meant." " And... | |
| English poetry - 1836 - 514 pages
...tale in Boccace. After salutation rmtl duty done, with some other talk, I asked her, why she wo:ild lose such pastime in the park! Smiling, she answered me, "I wist, all their sport in Ihe park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato." — ROGER ASCHAM. Note 11, page 12,... | |
| Samuel Burder - Women - 1836 - 756 pages
...tale in Boccace. After salutation and duty done, with some other talk, I asked her, why she should lose such pastime in the park ] Smiling, she answered me : ' I wist nil their sport in the park is but a shadow, to that pleasure that I find in Plato. Alas ! good folk,... | |
| William Hone - 1837 - 954 pages
...with some other talk, I asked her, why ? lie would lose such pastime 59 31 in the park? Smiling, ehe answered me : " ' I wist, all their sport in the park...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 Rogers - English poetry - 1838 - 332 pages
...much delight as some Gentlemen would read a merry tale in Boccace. After salutation, and duty done, with some other talk, I asked her, why she would lose...sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure which I find ire Plato." — ROGER ASCHAM. Page 72, line 19. Then is the Age of Admiration — Dante... | |
| Fashion - 740 pages
...Marchioness of Dorset and the ladies and gentlemen of the household were engaged in hunting : " I wis all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure I find in Plato. Alas, good folk ! they never felt what true pleasure means !" The speaker had arrived... | |
| Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1839 - 510 pages
...delight as some Gentlemen would read a merry tale in Boccacc. After salutation and dun- done, with tome other talk, I asked her, why she would lose such pastime...but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato." — ROGER ASCHAM. Note 11. page 12, col. 2. Then ii the Ace of Admiration. — Dante in his old age... | |
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