| 1857 - 850 páginas
...what is strange ; eometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose. Often it coneisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly...numberless rovings of fancy, and windings of language." Of all the preceding varieties of wit, next to the " play with words and phrases," perhaps Fuller most... | |
| James Hamilton - 1857 - 494 páginas
...sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntness, giveth it being : sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange ; sometimes...wresting obvious matter to the purpose ; often it consists in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how," <fec. Considering that Barrow... | |
| James Hamilton - 1857 - 532 páginas
...sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntncss, giveth it being : sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange ; sometimes...wresting obvious matter to the purpose ; often it consists in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how," &<;. Considering that Barrow... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 páginas
...an affected simplicity, sometimes a pre sumptuous bluntness, giveth it being : sometimes it riseth from a lucky hitting upon what is strange, sometimes...what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its way*" are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings... | |
| James Boswell - 1859 - 320 páginas
...sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntness, givcth it being; sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange; sometimes...inexplicable ; being answerable to the numberless ravings of fancy, and windings of language. It is, in short, a manner of speaking out of the simple... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 páginas
...Sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes u presumptuous bluntness, gives it being. Sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange ; sometimes...the purpose. Often it consisteth in one knows not whut, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being... | |
| Francis Wayland - 1859 - 442 páginas
...sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntness, giveth it being : sometimes it riseth from a lucky hitting upon what is strange, sometimes...wresting obvious matter to the purpose : often it consisted! in one knows not what, and springeth up one knows not how. Its ways are unaccountable and... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 780 páginas
...riseth from a lucky hitting Upoo w}lat jg strann-e, sometimes from a crafty wrestmg obvious inat^r to the purpose : often it consisteth in one knows not what, and s,,rin<reth „„ one can hardly tell how. Its ways prising uncouthness in conceit or expression,... | |
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