 ... 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 in a bold scheme of speech, in...  Titan: A Monthly Magazine - Pagina 1481846Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Leigh Hunt - 1890 - 364 pagina’s
...cunningly diverting or cleverly restoring an objection; sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech; in a tart irony; in a lusty hyperbole; in...a counterfeit speech, a inimical look or gesture, passeth for it. Sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntness, gives it being.... | |
 | James McCosh - 1890 - 282 pagina’s
...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...things, a counterfeit speech, a inimical look or gesture passeth for it; sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntness giveth it being... | |
 | James Boswell - 1890 - 568 pagina’s
...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...representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a mimical look or gesture, passeth for it¿ sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous... | |
 | John Earle - 1890 - 612 pagina’s
...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...representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a mimical look or gesture, passeth for it ; sometimes an affected simplicity ; sometimes a presumptuous... | |
 | Marvin Richardson Vincent - 1890 - 622 pagina’s
...cunningly diverting or cleverly retorting an objection : sometimes it ifl couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in...contradictions, or in acute nonsense. . . . Sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntness giveth it being, ... Its ways are unaccountable... | |
 | William James Dawson - 1890 - 396 pagina’s
...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...reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense." The worst form which Browning's humour has taken is in the purposed grotesqueness of his rhymes, and... | |
 | 1891 - 780 pagina’s
...cunningly diverting or cleverly restoring an objection ; sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech ; in a tart irony ; in a lusty hyperbole ;...things, a counterfeit speech, a inimical look or gesture passeth for it. Sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous blnntness gives it being.... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 464 pagina’s
...diverting or cleverly retorting an objection: sometimes it is couched in a bolu scheme of speech, in а tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor,...things, a counterfeit speech, a inimical look or gesture passeth for it : sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntness, giveth it being... | |
 | Alphonse Mariette - 1894 - 402 pagina’s
...a startling 13 metaphor, a plausible reconciling u of contradictions, or in acute nonsense ; 15 — sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a lnimical look or gesture,16 passeth for it;17 — sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous... | |
 | Cecil Headlam - 1897 - 348 pagina’s
...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...of contradictions, or in acute nonsense ; sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntness giveth it being ; sometimes it riseth only... | |
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