 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 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 : sometimes it is lodged in a sly... | |
 | Treasury - 1868 - 148 lehte
...allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application to a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases,...affinity of their sound : sometimes it is wrapped up in a dress of humorous expression : sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude : sometimes it... | |
 | John Stoughton - 1879 - 358 lehte
...seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale ; sometimes it playetb. 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 ; sometimes it is lodged in a sly... | |
 | Arthur B. Davison - 1880 - 396 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; sometimes it is lodged in a sly... | |
 | James McCosh - 1880 - 276 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 ; sometimes it is lodged in a sly... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1880 - 842 lehte
...tale : sometimes itplayeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their s.use, 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... | |
 | Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 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 amblguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound : sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous... | |
 | Charles Porterfield Krauth - 1881 - 1080 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 lurkcth under an odd similitude; 1 Spectator, 62.' a Phil, of Rhet,,... | |
 | William Minto - 1881 - 596 lehte
...of the same kind, and need not be farther illustrated. A large part of the wit consists in " playing in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense or the affinity of their sound." Laud is "a man of low stature, but of high parts;" Dr Field is "that learned divine whose memory smelleth... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1882 - 632 lehte
...be mentioned alongside with John Gilpin. They are excellent examples of that species of wit which " playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from...ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound." Tam 0Shanter, by Robert Burns, is a poem of infinitely higher rank. Indeed, it may well be compared... | |
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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... 
