 | Anna Maria Hall - 842 pàgines
...clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, cr to define the figure of a fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to...saying, or in forging an apposite tale : sometimes it playcth in words anj phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of tbeii sense, or the affinity of... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 282 pàgines
...a clear and certain notice thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or lo 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 ;... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 410 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 ;... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 416 pàgines
...make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat Uusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of...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;... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 386 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...known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saving, or in forging an apposite tale ; sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 290 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 a known story, or in seasonable application, of*a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale ; sometimes it playeth in words jind phrases, taking... | |
 | 1846 - 436 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 lictli in apt allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging... | |
 | 1846 - 586 pàgines
...seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of I'rotous. or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in apt allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite... | |
 | Henry Wharton Griffith - 1849 - 252 pàgines
...signification of the term. The various forms of wit are thus enumerated by the celebrated Dr. Barrow : " Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story,...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 ;... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1849 - 446 pàgines
...judgments, " that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and cer" tain notion thereof than to make a portrait of Proteus, " or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometime " it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in season" able application of a trivial saying,... | |
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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... 
