 | 1838 - 448 pàgines
...judgments, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it Moth in pat allitrion* to a known story, or in seasonable application rf a trivial saying, or in feigning... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 pàgines
...clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of a fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to...phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound : sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expression ;... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1839 - 374 pàgines
...clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of a fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to...phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound : sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expression ;... | |
 | William Bradford Homer, Edwards Amasa Park - 1842 - 430 pàgines
...can describe his facetiousness, and the " unfair preacher " would say, that " it consisted sometimes in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying; sometimes it lurked under an odd similitude, or was lodged in a sly question, in a smart answer, in... | |
 | James Boswell - 1843 - 588 pàgines
...make a portrait of Proteus, or to define i in- figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it In-ill in uiit allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging au apposite tale : sometimes it play eth in words and phrases, taking advantage from thu ambiguity... | |
 | 1844 - 671 pàgines
...wit, but it is a difficulty which Barrow has admirably solved in his celebrated analytic passage : "Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story,...seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forcing an apposite tale ; sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage, from the ambiguity... | |
 | 1850 - 640 pàgines
...his essays and lectures will see that the mirth which they enfold, to use Barrow's words, oftenest " lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying." But his wit is never arbitrary and capricious, and does not run riot ; it is drilled into subordination... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 pàgines
...judgments, that it seemeth no less (95) hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of...phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound. Sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expression ;... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - 1845 - 692 pàgines
...judgments, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of...phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound : sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expression :... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 242 pàgines
...a clear and certain notice thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to...phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound ; sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of luminous expression ;... | |
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Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their... 
