 | James Boswell - 1859 - 472 pàgines
...certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteun, or to define the figure of the fieeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known...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 ;... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pàgines
...thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of fleeting air. Sometimes it lifith in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable...phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, ui the affinity of their sound ; sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of luminous expression ;... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1859 - 444 pàgines
...judgments, that it seometh no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of...in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or iu forging an apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the... | |
 | William Fleming - 1860 - 698 pàgines
...contrary, in a particular and uncommon point of view." Dr. Barrow,* speaking of facetimtsness, snys, "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;... | |
 | William Fleming - 1860 - 912 pàgines
...particular and uncommon point of view." Dr. Barrow,3 speaking of facctiousness, says, "Sometimes it licth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable...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 ;... | |
 | Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 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...playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the amblguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound : sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous... | |
 | 1871 - 612 pàgines
...— namely, a description of wit — and proceeds to explain: — "Sometimes it Keth in pat illusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of...playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from their ambiguity of sense, or the affinity of their sound; sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of luminous... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1880 - 842 pàgines
...settle a clear ami-certain notion thereof, than, to make n portrait of Proteus, or to define t lie figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to n known story, or iu seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale : sometimes... | |
 | Charles Porterfield Krauth - 1881 - 1080 pàgines
...particular and uncommon point of view." Dr. Barrow, 3 speaking of facetiousness, says, "Sometimes id lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable...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; sometimes... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1882 - 632 pàgines
...settle 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; sometimes... | |
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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... 
