 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...  Littell's Living Age - Page 51857Full view - About this book
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 548 pages
...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...lodged in a sly question, in a smart answer, in a quifkish reason) in a shrewd intimation, tri cunningly diverting, or cleverly retorting an objection... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 1152 pages
...a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging ah' apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking...is lodged in a sly question, in a smart answer, in aquirkith reason, in a shrewd intimation, 1ft cunningly diverting, or cleverly' retorting an objection... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1807 - 562 pages
...to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an opposite tale; sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking...their sound : sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humourous expression : sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude : sometimes it is lodged in a sly... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 532 pages
...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...their sound: sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humourous expression : sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude ; sometimes it is lodged in a sly... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...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 oftheir sense, or the affinity of their sound. Sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expression... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1813 - 480 pages
...known story, or in a sea* sonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking...lodged in a sly question, in a smart answer, in a qnirkish reason, in a shrewd intimation, in cunningly diverting or cleverly retorting an objection... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1813 - 546 pages
...in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale : sometimes it playrth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity...sound. Sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expresjion ; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude ; sometimes it is lodged in a sly question,... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 482 pages
...a known story, or in a seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking...ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound : somelima it is wrapped in a dress of humoroui expression, sometimes it lufketh under an odd similitude... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - Authors, English - 1817 - 882 pages
...moral proverb, or in forging an apposite fable. " Sometimes it plays in words, and phrases, tak" ing advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, " or...affinity of their sound. " Sometimes it is wrapped in a whimsical dress "of humourous expression. — Sometimes it lurks " under an odd similitude, in smart... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1819 - 368 pages
...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...their sound : sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of luminous expression ; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude. Sometimes it is lodged in a sly... | |
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