 If pleasure be worth purchasing, how great a pleasure is it to him, who has a true taste of life, to ease an aching heart ; to see the human countenance lighted up into smiles of joy, on the receipt of a hit of ore which is superfluous and otherwise useless...  Letters written during a tour through South Wales - Page 216by John Evans - 1804 - 80 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Sir Richard Steele - 1761 - 354 pages
...purchafing, how great a Pleafufe is it to him, who has a true Tafte of Life, to eafe an ;iking Heart, to fee the human Countenance lighted up into -Smiles of Joy, on the Receipt of a Bit of Oar, which is fuperfluous, and otherwife ufelefs in a Man's own Pocket ? What could a Man do better... | |
 | John Bell - 1791 - 356 pages
...mistaken. Why, who can be more an usurer than he who lays out his money in such valuable purchases f If pleasure be worth purchasing, how great a pleasure is it to him, whoxhas a true taste of life, to ease an aching heart ; to see the human countenance lighted up into... | |
 | 1805 - 282 pages
...who can he more an usurer than he who lays out his mouey in snch valuahle purchases? If pleasure he worth purchasing, how great a pleasure is it to him,...the human countenance lighted up into smiles of joy, ou the receipt of a hit of ore, which Is superfinous, and otherwise uselefs, in a man's own pocket... | |
 | 1804 - 552 pages
...be more an usurer than he, who lays out his money in such valuable purchases? If pleasure be wortli purchasing, how great a pleasure is it to him who has a trut taste of life, to case an aching heart; to see the human countenance lighted up into smilos of... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - 1808 - 382 pages
...mistaken. Why, who can be more an usurer than he, who lays out his money in such valuable purchases ? If pleasure be worth purchasing, how great a pleasure is it to him, who has a true taste of life, to case an aching heart ; to see the human countenance lighted up into smiles of joy, on the receipt of... | |
 | James Plumptre - 1812 - 552 pages
...mistaXen : Why, who can be more an usurer, than he, who I lays out his money in such valuable purchases? If pleasure be worth purchasing, how great a- pleasure...a true taste of life, to ease an aching heart, to seethe human countenance lighted up into smiles of joy,, on the receipt of a bit of ore which is superfluous,... | |
 | Sir Richard Steele - 1894 - 544 pages
...Or, to take another passage in the conversation of these same "conscious lovers," Bevil remarks, " If pleasure be worth purchasing, how great a pleasure...aching heart, to see the human countenance lighted up with smiles of joy on receipt of a bit of ore which is superfluous and otherwise useless in a man's... | |
 | Richard Steele - 1894 - 538 pages
...still I insist his having no private interest in the action, makes it prodigious, almost mcredible. worth purchasing, how great a pleasure is it to him, who has a trj1e taste of life, to_e3sg_an_achjng heart; to see the human countgnanceJighted up into smiles of... | |
 | Leon Kellner, Gustav Krüger - 1906 - 502 pages
...received it. Methought all Nature seem'd to die for love like me . . ." (Steele, Lying Lover, Act I.) "If Pleasure be worth purchasing, how great a Pleasure...it to him, who has a true Taste of Life, to ease an aking Heart, to see the human Countenance lighted up into Smiles of loy, on the Receipt of a Bit of... | |
 | 1906 - 506 pages
...received it. Methought all Nature seem'd to die for love like me ..." (Steele, Lying Lover, Act I.) "If Pleasure be worth purchasing, how great a Pleasure...it to him, who has a true Taste of Life, to ease an aking Heart, to see the human Countenance lighted up into Smiles of loy, on the Receipt of a Bit of... | |
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