| James Baldwin - 1882 - 632 Seiten
...be mentioned alongside with John Gilpin. They are excellent examples of that species of wit which " playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from...ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound." Tam 0Shanter, by Robert Burns, is a poem of infinitely higher rank. Indeed, it may well be compared... | |
| John Eadie - 1883 - 568 Seiten
...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...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... | |
| Morris Joseph Fuller - 1884 - 508 Seiten
...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...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... | |
| James Boswell - 1884 - 658 Seiten
...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...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... | |
| James Boswell - 1884 - 626 Seiten
...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...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... | |
| Philip Henry Bagenal - 1884 - 398 Seiten
...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...affinity of their sound ; sometimes it is wrapped up in a dress of humorous expression ; sometimes it lurkcth under an odd similitude ; sometimes it... | |
| Charles William Bardeen - 1884 - 828 Seiten
...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...affinity of their sound ; sometimes it is wrapped up in a dress of humorous expression ; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude ; sometimes it... | |
| Charles William Bardeen - 1884 - 828 Seiten
...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...affinity of their sound ; sometimes it is wrapped up in a dress of humorous expression ; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude ; sometimes it... | |
| Charles William Bardeen - 1884 - 824 Seiten
...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...affinity of their sound ; sometimes it is wrapped up iu a dress of humorous expression ; sometimes it lurketh under uu odd similitude ; sometimes it... | |
| James McCosh - 1887 - 294 Seiten
...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...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... | |
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