 | Adolf Freiherr von Knigge - 1895 - 418 pages
...it. Who could be fo cruel as not to indulge an honeft and fenfible man in fo trifling a pleafure ? I advife you particularly to notice the innocent hobby...not confift in idle jefting, nor in hunting after witticifms. A man who can laugh from the bottom of his heart and abandon himfelf to the ebullitions... | |
 | 1800 - 908 pages
...and whole minds with for Socratic entertainment.' (Vol. ip 24.) 4 It is eafy and pleafant to convcrfe with cheerful and lively people, who are animated with real good humour; 1 fay they mult be animated with real good humonr; their cheerfulnefs muft flow from the heart, muft... | |
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J advife you particularly to notice the innocent hobby horfes of the Great with whom you wifh to ingratiate yourfelf; for a lafh given to this favourite ' is more painfully felt,* as Triftram Shandy obferves, * than a blow which the rider receives.' §... 