Games of skill, and conjuring: including draughts, dominoes, chess, morrice (1865)
London, New York, G. Routledge and sons · leaf 39
,the mountebank, or quack doctor, blended sleights of hand withhis professional avocations. At the present time, the jugglers, in-stead of feasting and revelling in the houses of the nobility, travelfrom town to town to pick up a precarious subsistence, by displayingtheir feats in public-houses, or… … THE SEH-TINEI EGO. (PAGE 35.) Doubtless the pleasure is as greatOf being cheated, as to cheat;As lookers on feel most delight.That least perceive a jugglers sleight.And still the less they understand.The more they admire his sleight of hand.—JEudihras. Theke is probably no amusement which excites…
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