| John Eglington Bailey - 1874 - 896 oldal
...shrewd intimation, in cunningly diverting or cleverly retorting a question ; sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense ; sometimes... | |
| James Boswell - 1874 - 584 oldal
...shrewd intimation, in cunningly diverting or cleverly retorting an objection : sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense : sometimes... | |
| Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1874 - 876 oldal
...intimation, in cunningly, divertingly, or cleverly retorting an objection ; sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense; sometimes... | |
| Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1875 - 868 oldal
...intimation, in cunningly, divertingly, or cleverly retorting an objection ; sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense; sometimes... | |
| English authors - 1876 - 484 oldal
...shrewd intimation, in cunningly diverting or cleverly retorting an objection: sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or an acute nonsense : sometimes... | |
| Henry Major - 1876 - 784 oldal
...shrewd intimation, in cunningly diverting or cleverly restoring an objection; sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense; sometimes... | |
| Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 oldal
...shrewd intimation, in cunningly diverting or cleverly retorting an objection : sometimes it is couched y as much as any. He was indeed honest, and of an open and free na in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense : sometimes... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1876 - 474 oldal
...shrewd intimation ; in cunningly diverting or cleverly restoring an objection : sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech ; in a tart irony ; in a lusty hyperbole ; in a startling metaphor ; in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense : sometimes... | |
| Literary curiosities - 1876 - 386 oldal
...shrewd intimation, in cunningly diverting or cleverly retorting an objection ; sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense ; sometimes... | |
| Thomas Budd Shaw - 1876 - 576 oldal
...shrewd intimation, in cunningly diverting or cleverly retorting an objection ; sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense ; sometimes... | |
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