 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1865
...surprising uncoutbness or conceit of exprès» Sermon xiv. 44 MODERN NOVELISTS : CHARLES DICKENS. 46 sion doth affect and amuse the fancy, stirring in it some wonder and breeding some delight thereto." Barrow must be allowed to be an excellent judge of wit ; if there is any one on whose opinion we should... | |
 | James Boswell - 1907 - 1172 oldal
...plain way (such as reason teacheth and proveth things by), which by a pretty surprising uncouthness in conceit or expression, doth affect and amuse the fancy, stirring in it some wonder, ami breeding some delight thereto. It raiseth admiration, as signifying a nimble sagacity of apprehension,... | |
 | 1908
...plain way (such as reason teacheth and proveth things by), which, by a pretty surprising uncouthness in conceit or expression, doth affect and amuse the...it some wonder, and breeding some delight thereto." Yes. The humorous is "out of the simple and plain way" of reason (ie, truth). But how far out ? How... | |
 | 1908
...plain way (such as reason teacheth and proveth things by), which, by a pretty surprising uncouthness in conceit or expression, doth affect and amuse the...it some wonder, and breeding some delight thereto." Yes. The humorous is "out of the simple and plain way" of reason (ie, truth). But how far out? How... | |
 | 1911 - 186 oldal
...plain way (such as reason teacheth and proveth things by), which by a pretty surprizing uncouthness in conceit or expression doth affect and amuse the...seeming to argue a rare quickness of parts, that one can fetch in remote conceits applicable; a notable skill, that he can dexterously accommodate them... | |
 | Carolyn Wells - 1923 - 782 oldal
...in conceit or expression doth affect and amuse the fancy, showing in it some wonder, and breathing some delight thereto. It raiseth admiration, as signifying...seeming to argue a rare quickness of parts, that one can fetch in remote conceits applicable; a notable skill that he can dexterously accommodate them to... | |
 | 1896
...from Barrow's sermons as applicable to Wilkes. "Facetiousness," as Barrow says, among other things, "raiseth admiration as signifying a nimble sagacity...seeming to argue a rare quickness of parts, that one can fetch in remote conceits applicable; a notable skill that he can dexterously accommodate them to... | |
 | Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - 1962 - 659 oldal
...uncouthness in conceit or expression doth affect and amuse the fancy, showing in it some wonder and breathing some delight thereto. It raiseth admiration, as signifying...seeming to argue a rare quickness of parts that one can fetch in remote conceits applicable; a notable skill that he can dextrously accommodate them to... | |
 | James Boswell - 1998 - 1492 oldal
...plain way, (such as reason teacheth and proveth things by,) which by a pretty surprizing uncouthness in conceit or expression, doth affect and amuse the...invention, a vivacity of spirit, and reach of wit more tban vulgar; it seeming to argue a rare quickness of parts, that one can fetch in remote conceits applicable;... | |
 | Christopher Howse - 2003 - 224 oldal
...sermon by Barrow 'Against Foolish talking and Jesting'. 'It raiseth admiration', says Barrow of wit, 'as signifying a nimble sagacity of apprehension,...reach of wit more than vulgar; it seeming to argue a new quickness of parts, that one fetch in remote conceits applicable; a notable skill that he can dextrously... | |
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It is, in short, a manner of speaking out of the simple and plain way, such as reason teacheth and proveth things by, which by a pretty surprising uncouthness in conceit or expression doth affect and amuse the fancy, stirring in it some wonder, and breeding... 
