 | James Boswell - 1821
...him." Mr Wilkes said to me, loud enough for Dr. Johnson to hear, " Dr. Johnson should make me a present in a lusty hyberbole, in a startling metaphor, in...representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a inimical look or gesture, passeth for it : sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous... | |
 | 1821
...objection : sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart .irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling...contradictions, or in acute nonsense : sometimes a apenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a miinical look oj gesture, passetlj... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 506 páginas
...objection : sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling...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.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1823
...objection: sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling...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.... | |
 | Voltaire - 1824
...objection : sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling...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.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1824 - 482 páginas
...scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a inimical look or gesture, passe tb for it: sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes...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.... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 615 páginas
...objection : sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling...representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a inimical look or gesture passeth for it : sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous... | |
 | James Boaden - 1825 - 607 páginas
...objection : sometimes it is " couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a "lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor; in a plausible " reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense : some" times a scenical representation of persons or things, a " counterfeit speech, a mimical look... | |
 | James Boaden - 1825 - 607 páginas
...some•• times a scenical representation of persons or things, a " counterfeit speech, a inimical look or gesture passeth for ' ' it : sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a pre" sumptuous bluntness gives it being — often it consisteth in " one knows not what, and springeth... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826
...objection : sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling...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.... | |
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... similitude: sometimes it is lodged in a sly question, in a smart answer, .in a quirkish reason, in a shrewd intimation, in cunningly diverting or cleverly retorting an objection: sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony,... 
