 | Mary Onley - 1882 - 174 pàgines
...out-of-door sports, he questioned her as to the cause of this taste. " I wis," replied she, with a smile, "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 attained you,... | |
 | Gustave H. Doret - 1883 - 172 pàgines
...merry tale in Bocace. Afler salutation and duty done (i), with some other talk, I asked her why she would lose such pastime in the park. Smiling, she answered me, " I wis all their sport in the park is but a shadow to (2) that pleasure that I find in Plato ; alas !... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1883 - 410 pàgines
...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. 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... | |
 | Ellen Crofts - 1884 - 392 pàgines
...her why she would lose such pastime in the park? Smiling she answered me, I wisse all these sports is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato : alas, good folk, they never felt what the pleasure meant ! And how came you, madam, quoth I, to this deep knowledge of pleasure, and what... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1884 - 436 pàgines
...chamber, reading the Phaedon of Plato in Greek ; in reply to his remarks, she said, smiling, " I wisse all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato. Alas ! guid folk, they never felt what true pleasure means." In 1551, she received a long letter in Latin... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1884 - 436 pàgines
...chamber, reading the Phaedon of Plato in Greek ; in reply to his remarks, she said, smiling, " I wisse all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato. Alas ! guid folk, they never felt what true pleasure means." In 1551, she received a long letter in Latin... | |
 | Englishwomen - 1884 - 144 pàgines
...asked, with some surprise. " I wis," answered the child of fourteen, looking up with a bright smile, " all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure I find in Plato ; they do not know, alas ! what true pleasure means ! " Then they had a long talk,... | |
 | William Burt Harlow - 1884 - 154 pàgines
...talk I asked her why she would lose so much pastime in the park. Smiling, she answered me, " I wiss 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."" "And how came you, Madam,"... | |
 | Frank Carr - 1885 - 534 pàgines
...may be added. The best of pleasures can beTound in Books. Said Lady Jane Grey : — " I wist, that all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure I find in Plato." At the same time, man here obtains some of the highest possible good (not negligent... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1886 - 304 pàgines
...Bocase" and when he asked her why she had not gone hunting with the rest, she answered, " I wisse, all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato." Ascham 's Schoolmaster, as well as his earlier book, Toxophilus, a Platonic dialogue on archery, bristles... | |
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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... 
