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" After salutation and duty done, with some other talk, I asked her why she would lose such pastime 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 I good folk, they... "
The English Works of Roger Ascham: Preceptor to Queen Elizabeth - Page 215
by Roger Ascham - 1815 - 391 pages
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Merry's Museum, Volumes 7-8

New York (N.Y.) - 1845 - 398 pages
...youthful student why she would lose such pastime, as was going on in the park? She replied, " I wisse 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." Ascham then asked, " How...
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 1

Half hours - 1847 - 614 pages
...much delight, as some gentlemen would read a merry tale in Bocace. After salutation, and duty done, with some other talk, I asked her why she would lose...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...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: First period, from the earliest times to 1400

Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...much delight, as some gentlemen would read a merry tule in Bocace. After salutation and duty done, | ` ,L zR e M 5C ([ ) Î Smiling, she answered me, ' I wise, all their sport in the park is hut a shadow to that pleasure...
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Literary and Historical Memorials of London, Volume 2

John Heneage Jesse - London (England) - 1847 - 488 pages
...some other talk, I asked her why she should lose such pastime in the park ? Smiling she answered me, ' All their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure I find in Plato.' However illustrious she was by fortune," adds Ascham, " and by royal extraction,...
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The Christian miscellany, and family visiter

1847 - 412 pages
...she lost such pastime as there must needs be in the park ? At which, smiling, she answered, " I wisse 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 meant !" This naturally leading...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1850 - 710 pages
...much delight, as some gentlemen would read a merry tale in Bocace. After salutation and duty done, it. As for money (which wiss,all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato. Alas ! good...
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The Dark Days of Queen Mary

Edwin Paxton Hood - 1851 - 238 pages
...much delight as some gentlemen would read a merry tale in Boccace. After salutation and duty done, I asked her why she would lose such pastime in the...sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure I find in reading Plato. Alas ! good folk they never felt what true pleasure meant.'1 ' And how came...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1

Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 602 pages
...as much delight, as some gentlemen would read a merry tale in Bocace. After salutation and duty done with some other talk, I asked her, why she would lose...pastime in the park ? Smiling, she answered me, ' I wiss, all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato. Alas! good...
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Poems

Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1851 - 328 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 pastime in the park 1 Smiling, she answered me ; " I wist, all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1

Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...as much delight, as some gentlemen would read a merry tale in Bocace. After salutation and duty done with some other talk, I asked her, why she would lose such pastime in the park 1 Smiling, she answered me, ' I wiss, all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure...
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