 | william harrison ainsworth - 1857 - 516 páginas
...judgments, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of...phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound : sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expression :... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1857 - 494 páginas
...judgments, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of...phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound. Sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expression :... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 páginas
...clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of a fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to...phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound : sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expression :... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1857 - 574 páginas
...seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Froteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes...apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in words and phraaes, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound : sometimes... | |
 | 1857 - 850 páginas
...exemplified in the pages of our author. Of his wit, as of wit- in general, ¡t may be truly said, that " sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story,...application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite talc ; sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1857 - 516 páginas
...judgments, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of...air. Sometimes it lieth in PAT ALLUSION to a known itory, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale : sometimes... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 242 páginas
...than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of a fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in a pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging ar apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1858 - 424 páginas
...portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of p fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in a pat allusion to u. known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial...saying, or in forging an apposite tale : sometimes it piayeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense or the affinity of... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - 1859 - 584 páginas
...judgments, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of...phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound b: sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expression... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 780 páginas
...clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of a fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to...phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound : sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expression:... | |
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Sometimes it lieth in pat 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 ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their... 
