 | James Boswell - 1835 - 590 páginas
...pat allusion to a known story, or\in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging ail apposite tale; sometimes it playeth in words and phrases,...expression: sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude: sometime) it is lodged in a sly question, in a smart answer, in a quirkish reason, sire of augmenting... | |
 | William Evans Burton, Edgar Allan Poe - 1838 - 448 páginas
...make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pal allusion» to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in feigning an apposite tale ; lometimea it playetl: in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1839 - 374 páginas
...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 a known story, or in seasonable...their sound : sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expression ; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude ; sometimes it is lodged in a sly... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 páginas
...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 a known story, or in seasonable...their sound : sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expression ; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude ; sometimes it is lodged in a sly... | |
 | William Bradford Homer, Edwards Amasa Park - 1842 - 430 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 páginas
...it is a difficulty which Barrow has admirably solved in his celebrated analytic passage : "Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in 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 páginas
...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 páginas
...thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable...their sound. Sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expression ; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude; sometimes it is lodged in a sly... | |
 | Basil Montagu, Hannah Mary Rathbone - 1845 - 396 páginas
...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 a known story, or in seasonable...their sound : sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expression ; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude ; sometimes it is lodged in a sly... | |
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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... 
