 | Sydney Smith - 1849 - 446 Seiten
...or in forging an "apposite tale;—sometimes it playeth in words and "phrases, taking advantage of the ambiguity of their " sense, or the affinity of their sound; — sometimes it is " wrapt in a dress of humorous expression ; —sometimes " it lurketh under an odd similitude;—sometimes... | |
 | Henry Rogers - 1850 - 542 Seiten
...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,...their sound ; sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expression ; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude ; sometimes it is lodged in a sly... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1850 - 232 Seiten
...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,...affinity of their sound ; sometimes it is wrapped up in a dress of humorous expression ; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude ; sometimes it... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1850 - 420 Seiten
...or in forging an apposite tale ; — sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage of the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their...sound ; — sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expression ; — sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude ;— • sometimes it is lodged... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1850 - 428 Seiten
...or in forging an apposite tale ; — sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage of the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their...sound ; — sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expression ; — sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude ; — • sometimes it is lodged... | |
 | James Boswell - 1851 - 322 Seiten
...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...their sound; sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expression; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude; sometimes it is lodged in a sly... | |
 | Henry Rogers - 1853 - 478 Seiten
...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,...their sound ; sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expression; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude ; sometimes it is lodged in a sly... | |
 | Henry Rogers - 1853 - 470 Seiten
...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,...their sound ; sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expression ; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude ; sometimes it is lodged in a sly... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1854 - 980 Seiten
...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,...their sound ; sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of luminous expression ; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude. Sometimes it is lodged in a sly... | |
 | Francis Wayland - 1854 - 444 Seiten
...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,...sense, or the affinity of their sound : sometimes it is lodged in a sly question, in a smart answer, in a quirkish reason, in a shrewd intimation, in cunningly... | |
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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... 
