 | Cecil Headlam - 1897 - 346 oldal
...comparison is remarkable, and the strange analogies thus introduced startle us with their excellence. advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound. Sometimes it is wrapt in a dress of humorous expression ; sometimes it lurks under an odd similitude ; sometimes it... | |
 | Cecil Headlam - 1897 - 348 oldal
...comparison is remarkable, and the strange analogies thus introduced startle us with their excellence. advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound. Sometimes it is wrapt in a dress of humorous expression ; sometimes it lurks under an odd similitude ; sometimes it... | |
 | Marshall Brown - 1899 - 602 oldal
...of wit. — MOLIERE. Isaac Barrow, an eminent English pulpit orator, denning wit, says: " Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable...saying, or in forging an apposite tale; sometimes it playcth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 928 oldal
...¡than to_ make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it liclh f, but left half-a-crown to a beggarly Scotchman,...of several, whom in the course of his almost univ humorous expression ; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude ; sometimes it is lodged in a sly... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 644 oldal
...fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application to a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale ;...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... | |
 | Francis Warner Lewis - 1900 - 120 oldal
...be occasionally repeated by later classes without much danger of monotony. " Sometimes it lieth in a pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application...in forging an apposite tale ; sometimes it playeth on words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense or the affinity of their sound.... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 578 oldal
...thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat 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, taking... | |
 | George Wright Buckley - 1901 - 232 oldal
...life From mortal birth lift man to birth of Heaven ! —James H. West. (8) Introduction Sometimes wit lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable...sense, or the affinity of their sound ; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude ; sometimes it is lodged in a sly question, in a smart answer, in a... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton Thompson, Thomas Budd Shaw - 1901 - 862 oldal
...— the " pat allusion to a known story, the seasonable application of a trivial saying, the playing in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity...sense or the affinity of their sound. Sometimes," Barrow goes on to say, " it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expression ; sometimes it lurks under... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 566 oldal
...thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the Meeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application to a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale ; sometimes it plavelh in words and phrases, taking... | |
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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... 
