 | Alexander Hamilton Thompson, Thomas Budd Shaw - 1901 - 862 Seiten
...— the " pat allusion to a known story, the seasonable application of a trivial saying, the playing in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity...sense or the affinity of their sound. Sometimes," Barrow goes on to say, " it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expression ; sometimes it lurks under... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 566 Seiten
...thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the Meeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application to a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale ; sometimes it plavelh in words and phrases, taking... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1903 - 624 Seiten
...notice thereof, 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...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1852 - 344 Seiten
...thereof, than 10 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... | |
 | William Samuel Lilly - 1904 - 350 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...humourous expression : sometimes it lurketh under a similitude : sometimes it is lodged in a sly question, in a smart answer, in a quirkish reason, in... | |
 | James Boswell - 1904 - 726 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... | |
 | Fireside pictorial annual - 1876 - 814 Seiten
...application of i trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tak; sometimes it playeth in words and porar- • taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense or the affinity of their sound ; sometime? it is wrapped in a dress of humorous eipresion ; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude;... | |
 | James Boswell - 1907 - 634 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...affinity of their sound : sometimes it is wrapped in a dre^-i of humorous expression : sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude : sometimes it is lodged... | |
 | Martha Hale Shackford - 1908 - 496 Seiten
...notice thereof, 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...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1910 - 548 Seiten
...portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusive to a known story, or in seasonable application of...sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude : sometimes ft is lodged in a sly question, in a smart answer, in a qnirkish reason, in a shrewd intimation, in... | |
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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... 
