 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
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 páginas
...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 a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale: sometimes it playcth in words and phrases, taking... | |
 | william harrison ainsworth - 1857 - 516 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 Hamilton - 1857 - 494 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... | |
 | 1857 - 850 páginas
...exemplified in the pages of our author. Of his wit, as of wit- in general, ¡t may be truly said, that " sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite talc ; sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1857 - 532 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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1857 - 574 páginas
...certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Froteus, 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 phraaes, taking... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 páginas
...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 a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 páginas
...fleeting air. Sometimes it lifith 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, ui the affinity of their sound ; sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of luminous expression ; sometimes... | |
 | William Fleming - 1860 - 698 páginas
...contrary, in a particular and uncommon point of view." Dr. Barrow,* speaking of facetimtsness, snys, "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... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1860 - 538 páginas
...in pat allusions to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in feigning an apposite tale ; sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage of the amhiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound; sometimes it is wrapped in a dress... | |
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