 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 424 páginas
...consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless...speaking out of the simple and plain way, (such as reasoning teacheth and 'proveth things by,) which, by a pretty surprising uncouthness in conceit or... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 404 páginas
...language. It is, in short, a manner of speaking out of the simple and plain way, (such as reasoning teacheth and proveth things by,) which, by a pretty...expression, doth affect and amuse the fancy, stirring it to some wonder and breeding some delight thereto." One cannot read this large induction and analytical... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 428 páginas
...It is, in short, a manner of speaking out of the simple and plain way, (such as reasoning tcacheth and proveth things by,) which, by a pretty surprising uncouthness in conceit or expression, doth afiect and amuse the fancy, stirring it to some wonder and breeding some delight thereto." One cannot... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 páginas
...consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its way* are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless...uncouthness in conceit or expression, doth affect and amuse 1 the fancy, stirring in it some wonder, and breeding some delight thereto. KNOWLEDGE A SOURCE OF DELIGHT.... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1856 - 1048 páginas
...consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language !" This description of wit has never been surpassed. But it is not a definition. And all the definitions... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1856 - 800 páginas
...Poems. [March, This reminds us slightly of Barrow's far moro comprehensive and accurate analysis : — ' It is, in short, a manner of speaking out of the simple ami plain way (such as reason teacheth and proveth things by), which by a pretty surprizing uncouthness... | |
 | william harrison ainsworth - 1857 - 516 páginas
...consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless...stirring in it some wonder, and breeding some delight thereto.—BARROW : Sermon XIV. Now the variety of forms in which WIT so richly displays itself is... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1857 - 520 páginas
...consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless...which by a pretty surprising uncouthness in conceit of" expression doth affect and amuse the fancy, stirring in it some wonder, and breeding some delight... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1857 - 574 páginas
...consisteth in one knows not what, and springetb. up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless...and proveth things by), which by a pretty surprising uncouthneee in conceit or expression dotli affect and amuse the fancy, stirring in it some wonder,... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 242 páginas
...springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being ans\v erable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of...speaking out of the simple and plain way, (such as reasoning teacheth and proveth things by), which, by a pretty surprising uncouthness in conceit or... | |
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... 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 up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable, and inexplicable ; being answerable... 
