... expression ; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude ; sometimes it is lodged in a sly question, in a smart answer, in a quirkish reason, in a shrewd intimation, in cunningly diverting or cleverly retorting an objection ; sometimes it is couched... Lectures on the English Comic Writers - Seite 25von William Hazlitt - 1845 - 222 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| George Burnett - 1807 - 548 Seiten
...intimation, tri cunningly diverting, or cleverly retorting an objection : sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme •of speech ; in a tart irony, in a lusty...representation of persons or things ; a counterfeit speech; a inimical look or gesture passeth for it : sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous... | |
| George Burnett - 1807 - 556 Seiten
...cunningly diverting, or cleverly retorting an objection : sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme *bf speech ; in a tart irony ; in a lusty hyperbole ;...contradictions, or in acute nonsense : sometimes a seenical representation of persons or things ; a counterfeit speech; a mimical look or gesture passeth... | |
| George Burnett - 1807 - 1152 Seiten
...cunningly diverting, or cleverly' retorting an objection : sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme 6f speech ; in a tart irony ; in a lusty hyperbole ;...contradictions', or in acute nonsense : sometimes a scehical representation of persons or things; a counterfeit speech; a mimical look or gesture passeth... | |
| James Boswell - 1807 - 562 Seiten
...intimation, hi cunningly diverting or cleverly retorting an objection : sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole,...in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in aqute nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a... | |
| John Mason Good - 1813 - 480 Seiten
...intimation, in cunningly diverting or cleverly retorting an objection : sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole,...representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a inimical look or gesture, passeth for it : sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous... | |
| John Mason Good - 1819 - 482 Seiten
...intimation, in cunningly diverting or cleverly relortiug an objection : sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole,...startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictious, or in acute nonsense: sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1819 - 368 Seiten
...question I might reply, as Democritus did to him that asked the definition of a man — 'tis that which we all see and know ; and one better apprehends what...representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a inimical look or gesture passeth for it ; sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous... | |
| James Boswell - 1820 - 476 Seiten
...intimation, in cunningly diverting or cleverly retorting an objection : sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole,...representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a inimical look or gesture, passeth for it: sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous... | |
| 1821 - 400 Seiten
...imitation, in cunningly diverting, or cleverly retorting, an objection : sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart .irony, in a lusty hyperbole,...contradictions, or in acute nonsense : sometimes a apenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a miinical look oj gesture, passetlj... | |
| James Boswell - 1821 - 418 Seiten
...me, loud enough for Dr. Johnson to hear, " Dr. Johnson should make me a present in a lusty hyberbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling...representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a inimical look or gesture, passeth for it : sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous... | |
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