 To those puny objectors against cards, as nurturing the bad passions, she would retort, that man is a gaming animal. He must be always trying to get the better in something or other: — that this passion can scarcely be more safely expended than upon...  The Irish Quarterly Review - עמוד 4531858תצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | 1895 - 416 דפים
...And of a grieved soul. MARY LAMB. 322 Have I not here the best cards for the game ? KING JOHN V. 2. TO those puny objectors against cards, as nurturing...; for we do but play at being mightily concerned, where a few idle shillings are at stake, yet, during the illusion, we are as mightily concerned as... | |
 | J. H. Lobban - 1896 - 362 דפים
...form and colour. A pencil and dry slate (she used to say) were the proper arena for such combatants. To those puny objectors against cards, as nurturing...drama; for we do but play at being mightily concerned, where a few idle shillings are at stake, yet, during the illusion, we are as mightily concerned as... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1896 - 800 דפים
...form and colour. A pencil and dry slate, she used to say, were the proper arena for such combatants. To those puny objectors against cards, as nurturing...drama ; for we do but play at being mightily concerned where a few idle shillings are at stake, yet during the illusion we are as mightily concerned as those... | |
 | J. H. Lobban - 1896 - 324 דפים
...form and colour. A pencil and dry slate (she used to say) were the proper arena for such combatants. To those puny objectors against cards, as nurturing...drama; for we do but play at being mightily concerned, where a few idle shillings are at stake, yet, during the illusion, we are as mightily concerned as... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1897 - 228 דפים
...form and color. A pencil and dry slate (she used to say) were the proper arena for such 15 combatants. To those puny objectors against cards, as nurturing...something or other ; that this passion can scarcely be 20 more safely expended than upon a game at cards ; that cards are a temporary illusion ; in truth,... | |
 | David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Walter Morris - 1897 - 524 דפים
..." Man is a fighting animal ; he must always be trying to get the better in something or other ; and this passion can scarcely be more safely expended than upon a game at chess. It is a sort of dream-fighting ; much ado ; great battling and little bloodshed ; quite as diverting,... | |
 | 1897 - 1016 דפים
...chess: "Man is a fighting animal; he must always be trying to get the better in something or other; and this passion can scarcely be more safely expended than upon a game at chess. It is a sort of dream-fighting; much ado; great battling and little bloodshed; quite as diverting,... | |
 | William Bittle Wells, Lute Pease - 1900 - 1250 דפים
...Chess: 'Man is a fighting animal; he must always be trying to get the better in samething or other; and this passion can scarcely be more safely expended than upon a game at Chess. It is a sort of dreamfighting; much ado; great battling and little bloodshed; quite as diverting,... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 434 דפים
...form and color. A pencil and dry slate (she used to say) were the proper arena for such combatants. To those puny objectors against cards, as nurturing...; for we do but play at being mightily concerned, where a few idle shillings are at stake, yet, during tbe illusion, we are as mightily concerned as... | |
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