| James Hamilton - 1857 - 532 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... | |
| william harrison ainsworth - 1857 - 516 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...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 Hamilton - 1857 - 494 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... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 oldal
...notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of a 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... | |
| Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1857 - 516 oldal
...Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in PAT ALLUSION to a known itory, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying,...sense, or the affinity of their sound : sometimes ii is wrapped in a dress of humorous expression : sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude : sometimes... | |
| Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1857 - 574 oldal
...thereof, than to make a portrait of Froteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in PAT ALLUSION to a known story, or in seasonable...apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in words and phraaes, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound : sometimes... | |
| 1857 - 850 oldal
...the pages of our author. Of his wit, as of wit- in general, ¡t may be truly said, that " sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable...application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite talc ; sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense,... | |
| Henry Reed - 1857 - 242 oldal
...than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of a fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in a pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging ar apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of... | |
| Henry Reed - 1858 - 424 oldal
...portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of p fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in a pat allusion to u. known story, or 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 of their sense or the affinity of... | |
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