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
| Frederick Tupper - 1914 - 488 pages
...mistaken. Why, who can be more a usurer than he who lays out his money in such valuable purchases ? If pleasure be worth purchasing, how great a pleasure...lighted up into smiles of joy, on the receipt of a hit of ore which is superfluous and otherwise useless in a man's own pocket ? What could a man do better... | |
| Frederick Tupper - 1914 - 482 pages
...mistaken. Why, who can be more a 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 f ease an aching heart; to see the human [^ countenance lighted up into smiles of joy, ' on the receipt... | |
| Frederick Tupper - 1914 - 480 pages
...flood of sentiment is poured forth in the dialogue between him and Indiana in Act II, as when he says: "If pleasure be worth purchasing, how great a pleasure is it to him, who has a true task of life, to ease an aching heart ; to see the human countenance lighted up into smiles of joy,... | |
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