 | James Boswell - 1807 - 532 páginas
...their sound: sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humourous expression : sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude ; sometimes it is lodged in a sly question,...bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyberbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 páginas
...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 question,...answer, in a quirkish reason, in a shrewd intimation, Iil cunningly diverting, or cleverly retorting an objection : sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 562 páginas
...sound : sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humourous expression : sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude : sometimes it is lodged in a sly question,...answer, in a quirkish reason, in a shrewd intimation, hi cunningly diverting or cleverly retorting an objection : sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 548 páginas
...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 question, in a smart answer, in a quifkish reason) in a shrewd intimation, tri cunningly diverting, or cleverly retorting an objection... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 1152 páginas
...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 question, in a smart answer, in aquirkith reason, in a shrewd intimation, 1ft cunningly diverting, or cleverly' retorting an objection... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 482 páginas
...their sound : somelima it is wrapped in a dress of humoroui expression, sometimes it lufketh under an odd similitude : sometimes it is lodged in a sly question,...shrewd intimation, in cunningly diverting or cleverly relortiug an objection : sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a... | |
 | George Burnett - 1813 - 546 páginas
...their sound. Sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expresjion ; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude ; sometimes it is lodged in a sly question,...answer, in a quirkish reason, in a shrewd intimation, in cunnmgly diverting, or cleverly retorting an objection : sometimes it is couched In a bold scheme of... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1813 - 480 páginas
...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 question, in a smart answer, in a qnirkish reason, in a shrewd intimation, in cunningly diverting or cleverly retorting an objection... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1817 - 882 páginas
...intimation, in diverting, or in retorting " an objection. VOL. i. I " Sometimes " Sometimes it is to be found in a bold scheme " of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, or " startling metaphor, in a colourable reconcilement " of contradictions, or in acute nonsense*.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1819 - 360 páginas
...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 question,...shrewd intimation ; in cunningly diverting or cleverly restoring an objection : sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech ; in a tart irony ; in... | |
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... 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... 
