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... A Treasury of Table Talk - Página 90de Treasury - 1868 - 128 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| George Burnett - 1807 - 548 páginas
...certain notion 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 application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking... | |
| George Burnett - 1807 - 556 páginas
...certain notion 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 application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking... | |
| James Boswell - 1807 - 562 páginas
...certain notion 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 application of a trivial saying, or in forging an opposite tale; sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking... | |
| James Boswell - 1807 - 532 páginas
...thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometiaies 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... | |
| John Mason Good - 1813 - 480 páginas
...certain notion thereof, than :o male 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 a sea* sonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale : sometimes it playeth... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1819 - 360 páginas
...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 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... | |
| James Boswell - 1821 - 412 páginas
...certain notion thereof, than to n.ake 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' application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale ; sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking... | |
| 1821 - 400 páginas
...notion 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 application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking... | |
| James Boswell - 1823 - 440 páginas
...fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale;...playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the amhiguity of their collections, sir, the desire of augmenting them grows stronger in proportion to... | |
| James Boswell - 1824 - 482 páginas
...fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale ;...taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or th£ affinity of their sound : sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expression : sometimes... | |
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