 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
 | John Selby Watson - 1861 - 478 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 » P. 41. f Kidd, Tracts, p. 317. ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound; sometimes... | |
 | John Selby Watson - 1861 - 468 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 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... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 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 Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 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... | |
 | 1865 - 496 páginas
...plentiful. | 41. Immature. 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 bluntness, giveth it being... | |
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