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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... "
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies ... - Sivu 227
tekijä(t) James Boswell - 1807
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - 1807 - 548 sivua
...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...

Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the ..., Nide 3

George Burnett - 1807 - 556 sivua
...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 oftheir sense, or the affinity of their sound. Sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expression...

Pantologia. A new (cabinet) cyclopædia, by J.M. Good, O. Gregory ..., Nide 12

John Mason Good - 1813 - 480 sivua
...allusion to a known story, or in a sea* sonable 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...

Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - 1813 - 546 sivua
...in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale : sometimes it playrth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity...their sound. Sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expresjion ; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude ; sometimes it is lodged in a sly...

Pantologia. A new (cabinet) cyclopædia, by J.M. Good, O. Gregory ..., Nide 12

John Mason Good - 1819 - 482 sivua
...allusion to a known story, or in a seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases,...ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound : somelima it is wrapped in a dress of humoroui expression, sometimes it lufketh under an odd similitude...

Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century ..., Nide 1

John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1817 - 882 sivua
...moral proverb, or in forging an apposite fable. " Sometimes it plays in words, and phrases, tak" ing advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, " or...affinity of their sound. " Sometimes it is wrapped in a whimsical dress "of humourous expression. — Sometimes it lurks " under an odd similitude, in smart...

Lectures on the English Comic Writers: Delivered at the Surry Institution

William Hazlitt - 1819 - 360 sivua
...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 luminous expression ; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude. Sometimes it is lodged in a sly...

The Christian Journal, and Literary Register, Nide 5

1821 - 400 sivua
...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,...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...

The life of Samuel Johnson. Copious notes by Malone, Nide 4

James Boswell - 1821 - 412 sivua
...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 serge, or the affinity of their sound : sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expression :...

A Philosophical Dictionary: From the French, Nide 6

Voltaire - 1824 - 524 sivua
...allusions to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in feigning 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...




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