...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 mimieal look or gesture, passeth for it : sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous...

...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 non sense." The worst form which Browning's humour has taken is in the purposed grotesqueness of his...

...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...affected simplicity : sometimes a presumptuous bluntness givcth it being : sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange : sometimes from...

...nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a mimic.il look or gesture, passeth for it : sometimes an affected simplicity : sometimes a presumptuous bluntne* giveth it being : sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange : sometimes...

...expression : sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude : sometimes it is lodged in a sly question, contradictions, or in acute nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation of persons or them grows stronger in proportion to the advance in acquisition ; as motion is accelerated by the continuance...

...laid claim to any wit, I might call in Isaac Barrow to be my champion, who says that wit consists " in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acule nonsense." But my case shall rest on no such unsatisfactory basis. No ! I entirely deny any incongruity...

...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 (of) obvious matter to the purpose....

...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....

...in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or an acute nonsense: sometimes a scenical representation...presumptuous bluntness giveth it being: sometimes it rises from a lucky hitting upon what is strange, sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to...

...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...sometimes a scenical representation of persons or them grows stronger in proportion to the advance in acquisition ; as motion is accelerated by the continuance...