 | 1822 - 734 pages
...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....many women, but very few men, have attained thereunto p " •' I will tell you," quoth she, " and tell you a truth which perchance ye will marvel at. One... | |
 | Ida Ashworth Taylor - Great Britain - 1822 - 414 pages
...as was then going on in the park ? She replied, with a smile, " I wisse 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 means.'" Ascham then asked, " And how came you, madam, to this deep knowledge of pleasure? and what... | |
 | Francis Charles Laird - 1822 - 414 pages
...as was then going on in the park ? She replied, with a smile, " I wisse 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'means." Ascham then asked, " And how came you, madam, to this deep knowledge of pleasure?... | |
 | English literature - 1822 - 696 pages
...?' Smiling, she answered me, * 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.' ' And how came you, madam,' quoth I, ' to this deep knowledge of pleasure ? and what did chiefly... | |
 | Samuel Rogers - English poetry - 1822 - 340 pages
...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." ROGER ASCHAM. P. 78, 1. 6. Then is the Age of Admiration — Dante in his old age was pointed out to... | |
 | Brief memoirs - 1823 - 196 pages
...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....they never felt what true pleasure meant.' ' And how come you, Madam,' quoth I, ' to this deep knowledge of pleasure ? and what did chiefly allure you unto... | |
 | William Godwin - Great Britain - 1824 - 136 pages
...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 that I find in Plato....good folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant!" This naturally leading him to enquire how a lady of her age had attained to this deep knowledge of... | |
 | English essays - 1825 - 724 pages
...her family wera engaged, she replied with a smile, ' I wisat [think] all their sport in the park it but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato,...alas ! good folk, they never felt what true pleasure means.' Ascliam then inquire.], ' And how came you, Madam, to this deep knowledge of pleasure, and... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1825 - 710 pages
...family were engaged, she replied with a smile, < I wiu« [think] all their sport in the park n but • shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato, —...alas ! good folk, they never felt what true pleasure means.' Asclmm then inquired, < And how came you, Madam, to this deep knowledge of pleasure, and what... | |
 | William Hone - 1825 - 842 pages
...would lose such pastime in the park? Smiling, she answered me : " ' I wist, all their sport in the park se ! good-folk, they never felt what true pleasure meant.' " ' And how came you, madam,' quoth I, ' to... | |
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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. 
