| 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... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1903 - 624 oldal
...notice thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable...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... | |
| James Boswell - 1852 - 344 oldal
...thereof, than 10 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...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... | |
| William Samuel Lilly - 1904 - 350 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...humourous expression : sometimes it lurketh under a similitude : sometimes it is lodged in a sly question, in a smart answer, in a quirkish reason, in... | |
| James Boswell - 1904 - 726 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...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... | |
| Fireside pictorial annual - 1876 - 812 oldal
...application of i trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tak; sometimes it playeth in words and porar- • taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense or the affinity of their sound ; sometime? it is wrapped in a dress of humorous eipresion ; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude;... | |
| James Boswell - 1907 - 634 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...affinity of their sound : sometimes it is wrapped in a dre^-i of humorous expression : sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude : sometimes it is lodged... | |
| Martha Hale Shackford - 1908 - 496 oldal
...notice thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable...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... | |
| James Boswell - 1910 - 548 oldal
...portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusive to a known story, or in seasonable application of...sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude : sometimes ft is lodged in a sly question, in a smart answer, in a qnirkish reason, in a shrewd intimation, in... | |
| 1911 - 202 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...sense, or the affinity of their sound: sometimes it is wrapt in a dress of humorous expression: sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude: sometimes it... | |
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