I shrewdly suspect that those non est tanti gentlefolks only depreciate the natural and unaffected pleasure which men like me receive from sights of splendour and sounds of harmony, either because they would seem wiser than their simple neighbours, at... The Gentleman's Magazine - Page 1081821Full view - About this book
| English literature - 1821 - 676 pages
...sounds of harmony, either because they would seem wiser than their simple neighbours at the expencc of being less happy, or because the mere pleasure...(being unable to detect a peg on which to hang a laugh) sneer coldly at this solemn festival, and are rather disposed to dwell on the expence which attends... | |
| Europe - 1823 - 784 pages
...men like me receive from eights of splendour and sounds of harmony, either because they would seem wiser than their simple neighbours at the expense...(being unable to detect a peg on which to hang a laugh) sneer coldly at this solemn festival, and are rather disposed to dwell on the expense which attends... | |
| Walter Scott - Europe - 1823 - 786 pages
...simple neighbours at the espense of being less happy, or Ьесгви the mere pleasure of the light and sound is connected with associations of a deeper...any, who (being unable to detect a peg on which to hug a laugh) sneer coldly at this solemn festival, and are rather disposed ч dwell on the expense... | |
| Walter Scott - Europe - 1823 - 780 pages
...men like me receive from sights of splendour and sounds of harmony, cither because they would seem wiser than their simple neighbours at the expense...or because the mere pleasure of the sight and sound ii connected with associations of a deeper kind, to which they are unwilling to yield themselves. "... | |
| 1823 - 792 pages
...men like me receive from sights of splendour and sounds of harmony, either because they would seem wiser than their simple neighbours at the expense...or because the mere pleasure of the sight and sound ii connected with associations of a deeper kind, to which they are unwilling to yield themselves. "... | |
| George Croly - Great Britain - 1830 - 576 pages
...men like me receive from sights of splendour and sounds of harmony, either because they would seem wiser than their simple neighbours, at the expense...unable to detect a peg on which to hang a laugh,) sneer coldly at this solemn festival, and are rather disposed to dwell on the expense which attends... | |
| George Croly - Great Britain - 1830 - 568 pages
...men like me receive from sights of splendour and sounds of harmony, either because they would seem wiser than their simple neighbours. at the expense...connected with associations of a deeper kind; to which they:are unwilling to yield themselves. " Leaving these gentlemen to enjoy their own wisdom, I still... | |
| George Croly - Great Britain - 1831 - 422 pages
...men like me receive from sights of splendour and sounds of harmony, either because they would seem wiser than their simple neighbours, at the expense...kind, to which they are unwilling to yield themselves. " But there were better things to reward my pilgrimage than the mere pleasures of the eye and the ear;... | |
| George Croly - Great Britain - 1832 - 432 pages
...men like me receive from sights of splendour and sounds of harmony, either because they would seem wiser than their simple neighbours, at the expense...with associations of a deeper kind, to which they -re unwilling to yield themselves, Leaving these gentlemen to enjoy their own wisj I still more pity... | |
| John Watkins - Great Britain - 1832 - 800 pages
...men like me receive from sights of splendour, and sounds of harmony, either because they would seem wiser than their simple neighbours, at the expense...pleasure of the sight and sound is connected with association* of a deeper kind, to which they are unwilling to yield themselves. "Leaving these gentlemen... | |
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