 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 416 pagina’s
...nonsense. Sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a mimical look or gesture, passeth for it. Sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntness, gives it being. Sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange ; sometimes from... | |
 | 1847 - 610 pagina’s
...reconciling of contradictions; or in acute nonsense. Sometimes it ariseth only from a lucky hitting what is strange : sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose. Its ways are unaccountable anil inexplicable; being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and... | |
 | H. Wharton Griffith - 1849 - 248 pagina’s
...nonsense ; sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a inimical look or gesture, passeth for it ; sometimes an affected...hitting upon what is strange ; sometimes from a crafty wrestling of obvious matter to the purpose. Often it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth... | |
 | Henry Wharton Griffith - 1849 - 252 pagina’s
...nonsense ; sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a inimical look or gesture, passeth for it ; sometimes an affected...sometimes a presumptuous bluntness giveth it being j sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange ; sometimes from a crafty wrestling... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1850 - 420 pagina’s
...nonsense ; — sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a inimical look or gesture, passeth for it ; — sometimes an...presumptuous bluntness, giveth it being ; — sometimes it ariseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange ; — often it consisteth in one knows not what,... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1850 - 428 pagina’s
...nonsense ; — sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a mimical look or gesture, passeth for it ; — sometimes an...presumptuous bluntness, giveth it being ; — sometimes it ariseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange ; — often it consisteth in one knows not what,... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1850 - 474 pagina’s
...scenical representation of " persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a mimical look "or gesture, passe th for it; — sometimes an affected " simplicity, sometimes...presumptuous bluntness, " giveth it being ; — sometimes it ariseth only from a "lucky hitting upon what is strange; — often it con" sisteth in one knows not... | |
 | James Boswell - 1851 - 322 pagina’s
...nonsense; sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a mimieal look or gesture, passeth for it; sometimes an affected...from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose. Otten it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable... | |
 | Henry Rogers - 1853 - 470 pagina’s
...nonsense ; sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a mimical look or gesture, passeth for it; sometimes an affected...purpose. Often it consisteth in one knows not what, and•springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable; being answerable... | |
 | Francis Wayland - 1861 - 444 pagina’s
...nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a mimical look or gesture passeth for it : sometimes an affected...presumptuous bluntness, giveth it being : sometimes it riseth from a lucky hitting upon what is strange, sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose... | |
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... an objection. Sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation, of persons... 
