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" ... look or gesture passeth for it; sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntness giveth it being ; sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange, sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose... "
A Lift for the Lazy - Página 143
por Henry Wharton Griffith - 1849 - 195 páginas
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - 1807 - 548 páginas
...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...what is strange; sometimes from a crafty wrestling obvious matter to the purpose : often it consists in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Comprehending an Account of ..., Volume 3

James Boswell - 1807 - 562 páginas
...lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in aqute nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation of...hitting upon what is strange : sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose. Often it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the ..., Volume 3

George Burnett - 1807 - 1152 páginas
...nonsense : sometimes a scehical representation of persons or things; a counterfeit speech; a mimical look or gesture passeth for it : sometimes an affected...what is strange; Sometimes from a crafty Wrestling obvious matter to the purpose : often it consists in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly...
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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the ..., Volume 3

George Burnett - 1807 - 556 páginas
...nonsense : sometimes a seenical representation of persons or things ; a counterfeit speech; a mimical look or gesture passeth for it : sometimes an affected...what is strange; sometimes from a crafty wrestling obvious matter to the purpose : often it consists in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly...
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Pantologia. A new (cabinet) cyclopædia, by J.M. Good, O. Gregory ..., Volume 12

John Mason Good - 1813 - 480 páginas
...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...hitting upon what is strange; sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose. Often it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up...
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Pantologia. A new (cabinet) cyclopædia, by J.M. Good, O. Gregory ..., Volume 12

John Mason Good - 1819 - 482 páginas
...or gesture, p.isieth for it: sometimes an aflVcted simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous Mir M ness giveth it being: sometimes it riseth only from a lucky...hitting upon what is strange; sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose. Often it consistelh in one knows not what, and springeth up...
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Lectures on the English Comic Writers: Delivered at the Surry Institution

William Hazlitt - 1819 - 368 páginas
...sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntness giveth it being; sometimes itriseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange: sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter, to the purpose : often it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

James Boswell - 1820 - 476 páginas
...ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound : sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humourous expression ; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude...hitting upon what is strange : sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose. Often it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Comprehending an Account of ..., Volume 4

James Boswell - 1821 - 418 páginas
...me, loud enough for Dr. Johnson to hear, " Dr. Johnson should make me a present in a lusty hyberbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling...hitting upon what is strange : sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose. Often it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up...
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The life of Samuel Johnson. Copious notes by Malone, Volume 4

James Boswell - 1821 - 412 páginas
...nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a mimioal look or gesture, passeth for it : sometimes an affected...hitting upon what is strange : sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose. Often it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up...
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