 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1851 - 144 páginas
...nonsense ; sometimes a scenical representation, of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a inimical look or gesture, passeth for it ; sometimes an affected...hitting upon what is strange ; sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose. Often it consisteth in one hardly knows what, and springeth... | |
 | Henry Rogers - 1853 - 478 páginas
...metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense ; sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit...hitting upon what is strange ; sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose. Often it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up... | |
 | Henry Rogers - 1853 - 470 páginas
...metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense ; sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit...hitting upon what is strange ; sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose. Often it consisteth in one knows not what, and•springeth... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1854 - 980 páginas
...metaphor ; in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit...hitting upon what is strange ; sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose ; often it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up... | |
 | Francis Wayland - 1861 - 444 páginas
...metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit...presumptuous bluntness, giveth it being : sometimes it riseth from a lucky hitting upon what is strange, sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose... | |
 | Rev. Sidney Smith - 1854 - 296 páginas
...metaphor, a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense ; — sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit...presumptuous bluntness, giveth it being ;— sometimes it ariseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange ; — often it consisteth in one knows not what,... | |
 | Francis Wayland - 1854 - 436 páginas
...nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a inimical look or gesture passeth for it : sometimes an affected...presumptuous bluntness, giveth it being : sometimes it riseth from a lucky hitting upon what is strange, sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose... | |
 | Francis Wayland - 1854 - 444 páginas
...in acute nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit»speech, a mimical look or gesture passeth for it : sometimes...affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntness, givcth it being : sometimes it riseth from a lucky hitting upon what is strange, sometimes from a crafty... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1855 - 400 páginas
...metaphor, a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense ; — sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit...presumptuous bluntness, giveth it being ; — sometimes it ariseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange ; — often it consisteth in one knows not what,... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 416 páginas
...metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit...sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous boldness, giveth it being; sometimes it riseth from a lucky hitting upon what is strange, sometimes... | |
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... an objection: sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation of persons or... 
