 ... 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
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 566 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1903 - 624 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 ;...representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a mimical look or gesture passeth for it ; sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous... | |
 | James Boswell - 1852 - 344 pagina’s
...objection ; sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, iu a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of...contradictions, or in acute nonsense ; sometimes a scenicul representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a inimical look or gesture, passeth... | |
 | James Boswell - 1904 - 726 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 mimieal look or gesture, passeth for it : sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous... | |
 | William Samuel Lilly - 1904 - 350 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...metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or an acute nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech,... | |
 | William James Dawson - 1906 - 416 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...plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute non sense." The worst form which Browning's humour has taken is in the purposed grotesqueness of his... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1887 - 892 pagina’s
...laid claim to any wit, I might call in Isaac Barrow to be my champion, who says that wit consists " in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acule nonsense." But my case shall rest on no such unsatisfactory basis. No ! I entirely deny any incongruity... | |
 | James Boswell - 1907 - 730 pagina’s
...expression : sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude : sometimes it is lodged in a sly question, contradictions, or in acute nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation of persons or them grows stronger in proportion to the advance in acquisition ; as motion is accelerated by the continuance... | |
 | Joseph Berg Esenwein - 1909 - 480 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1910 - 548 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... | |
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