 | William Fleming - 1860 - 710 páginas
...contrary, in a particular and uncommon point of view." Dr. Barrow,' speaking of faeetiousness, says, "Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story,...saying, or in forging an apposite tale.' sometimes it playcth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1860 - 414 páginas
...than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of ? fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in a pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application...saying, or in forging an apposite tale : sometimes it piayeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense or the affinity of... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1860 - 538 páginas
...eyes and 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 flecting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusions to a known story, or in seasonable application of... | |
 | Alphonse Mariette - 1860 - 404 páginas
...portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure 3 of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion 4 to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, 5 or in forging an apposite tale ; 6 —sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage... | |
 | John Selby Watson - 1861 - 478 páginas
...versatile and multiform, 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...playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the » P. 41. f Kidd, Tracts, p. 317. ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound; sometimes... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1861 - 572 páginas
...allusion, and apropos. In the course of his famous definition or description of wit, Barrow says : " Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage fromffieambiguity of their sense or the... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1861 - 406 páginas
...Johnson's want of manners. In the course of his famous definition or description of wit, Barrow says : " Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense or... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1861 - 410 páginas
...Johnson's want of manners. In the course of his famous definition or description of wit, Barrow says : "Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story,...or in seasonable application of a trivial saying: sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense or the... | |
 | Alphonse Mariette - 1863 - 400 páginas
...in forging an apposite tale ;* — sometimes it playeth in8 words and phrases, taking advantage4 of the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound ; — sometimes it is wrapt in a dress of humorous expression;5 — sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude ; 8 —... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 páginas
...eyes and 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 a fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of... | |
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It is, indeed, a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear... 
