| Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 lehte
...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, ui the affinity of their sound ; sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of luminous expression ; sometimes... | |
| William Fleming - 1860 - 912 lehte
...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 ; ' Spectator, 62. » Phil, of Rhet.,... | |
| William Fleming - 1860 - 710 lehte
...in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale.' sometimes it playcth 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; 1 Sprctotor, 63. » Phil, qf KaL,... | |
| Henry Reed - 1860 - 414 lehte
...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...their sound : sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expression . sometimes it lurketli under an odd similitude : sometimes it is lodged in a sly... | |
| Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1860 - 538 lehte
...feigning an apposite tale ; sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage of the amhiguity of their sense, 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... | |
| Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1861 - 410 lehte
..."Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying: sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking...ambiguity of their sense or the affinity of their sound." If this be so, she possessed it in abundance. In a letter, dated Bath, 26th April, 1818, — about... | |
| Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1861 - 406 lehte
...Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking...ambiguity of their sense or the affinity of their sound." If this be so, she possessed it in abundance. In a letter, dated Bath, 26th April, 1818, — about... | |
| John Selby Watson - 1861 - 500 lehte
...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 « P. 41. t Kidd, Tracts, p. 817. , ldtv of their sense, or the affinity of their soxind ; ambiguity... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 lehte
...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 lurketh under an odd similitude : sometimes it is lodged in a sly... | |
| Alphonse Mariette - 1863 - 400 lehte
...in forging an apposite tale ;* — sometimes it playeth in8 words and phrases, taking advantage4 of the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound ; — sometimes it is wrapt in a dress of humorous expression;5 — sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude ; 8 —... | |
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