...allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases,...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...

...allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application to a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases,...affinity of their sound : sometimes it is wrapped up in a dress of humorous expression : sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude : sometimes it...

...seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale ; sometimes it playetb. in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity...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...

...allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases,...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...

...allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale ; sometimes it playeth in words and phrases,...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...

...tale : sometimes itplayeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their s.use, or the affinity of 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...

...allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the amblguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound : sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous...

...allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale: sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking...their sound: sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expression; sometimes it lurkcth under an odd similitude; 1 Spectator, 62.' a Phil, of Rhet,,...

...of the same kind, and need not be farther illustrated. A large part of the wit consists in " playing in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense or the affinity of their sound." Laud is "a man of low stature, but of high parts;" Dr Field is "that learned divine whose memory smelleth...

...be mentioned alongside with John Gilpin. They are excellent examples of that species of wit which " playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from...ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound." Tam 0Shanter, by Robert Burns, is a poem of infinitely higher rank. Indeed, it may well be compared...