 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1870 - 554 pàgines
...or in acute nonsense ; sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntness, givcth it being; sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting...a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose." § 3. A large mass of Butler's miscellaneous writings has been published; and a curious discovery was... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1850 - 492 pàgines
...sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntness, giveth it being: sometimes it riseth from a lucky hitting upon what is strange, sometimes from a crafty wresting ubvious matter to the purpose : often it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1871 - 350 pàgines
...nonsense ; sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a mimical look or gesture, passeth for it; sometimes an affected...matter to the purpose. Often it consisteth in one hardly knows what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how, being answerable to the numberless rovings... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 pàgines
...nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a mimical tioned it as an honour to Shakspeare, that in his...which they thought a malevolent speech. I had not consists in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1876 - 576 pàgines
...hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense ; sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous...a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose." § 3. A large mass of Butler's miscellaneous writings has been published ; and a curious discovery... | |
 | English authors - 1876 - 484 pàgines
...nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a mimical look or gesture passeth for it: sometimes an affected...presumptuous bluntness giveth it being: sometimes it riseth from a lucky hitting upon what is strange, sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose:... | |
 | Henry Major - 1876 - 784 pàgines
...gesture passeth for it; sometimes au affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntncss, gives it being ; sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange; sometimes from a crafty wrestling obvious matter to the purpose." . The above illustrations, besides showing the congrnity... | |
 | Lord William Pitt Lennox - 1877 - 378 pàgines
...nonsense; sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a inimical look or gesture, passeth for it ; sometimes an affected...wresting obvious matter to the purpose ; often it consists in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable... | |
 | David Jayne Hill - 1877 - 328 pàgines
...sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntness, giveth it being : sometimes it riseth from a lucky hitting upon what is strange : sometimes...Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answer able to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language. It is, in short, a manner... | |
 | David Jayne Hill - 1877 - 330 pàgines
...imes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntuess, giveth it being : sometimes it riseth from a lucky hitting upon what is strange : sometimes...matter to the purpose : often it consisteth in one know? not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable,... | |
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... an objection. Sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation, of persons... 
