 | John Eadie - 1883 - 568 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 626 páginas
...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...phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound: sometimes it is wrapt in a dress of humorous expression : sometimes... | |
 | Philip Henry Bagenal - 1884 - 398 páginas
...Bernal Osborne was as well equipped as any of his class. ' Sometimes it lieth ' (says Dr. Barrow) ' in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable...phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound ; sometimes it is wrapped up in a dress of humorous expression... | |
 | Morris Joseph Fuller - 1884 - 508 páginas
...pages of our author. Of his wit, as of wit in general, it may be truly said, that sometimes it lies in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable...phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound ; sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expression ;... | |
 | Charles William Bardeen - 1884 - 828 páginas
...humorous is mercurial in its manifestations. Sometimes it lieth iu pat allusion to a known story, or in a seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in...phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense or the affinity of their sound ; sometimes it is wrapped up in a dress of humorous expression... | |
 | Charles William Bardeen - 1884 - 824 páginas
...might still be bliud to the next that occurred, for the humorous is mercurial in its manifestations. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in a seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale ; sometimes it playeth... | |
 | Charles William Bardeen - 1884 - 828 páginas
...might still be blind to the next that occurred, for the humorous is mercurial in its manifestations. 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 652 páginas
...judgements, 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...phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound : sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expression :... | |
 | James McCosh - 1887 - 292 páginas
...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...phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound ; sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expression ;... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - 1887 - 200 páginas
...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...phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound : sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expression ;... | |
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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... 
