 | Leigh Hunt - 1890 - 364 oldal
...showing in it some wonder. and breathing some deliqht thereto. It raiseth admiration, assignifyinga nimble sagacity of apprehension, a special felicity...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1890 - 568 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...some wonder, and breeding some delight thereto.- It raiscth admiration, as signifying a nimble sagacity of apprehension, a special felicity of invention,... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 464 oldal
...delight therein. It raiseth admiration, as signifying a nimble sagacity of apprehension, a epecial felicity of invention, a vivacity of spirit and reach of wit more than vulgar. It seemeth to argue a rare quickness of parts, that one can fetch in remote conceits applicable ; a notable... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1896 - 902 oldal
...Barrow's sermons ¡is applicable to Wilkes. " Facetionsuess," 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 928 oldal
...plain way (such as reason teacheth and proveth things by), which by a pretty surprising uncouthness 't know how it is, all their workmen are Scotch. You...imitated the manner of his old master with ludicrous can fetch in remote conceits applicable; a notable skill, that he can dexterously accommodate them... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 546 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1852 - 344 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...seeming to argue a rare quickness of parts, that one con fetch in remote conceits applicable; a notable skill, that he can dexterously accommodate them... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1903 - 624 oldal
...in conceit or expression doth affect and amuse the fancy, shewing 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 - 1904 - 726 oldal
...plain way, fsuch as reason teacheth and proveth things by,) which by a pretty surprising uncouthness in conceit or expression, doth affect and amuse the...delight thereto. It raiseth admiration, as signifying 1781] JOHNSON AND WILKES TETE-A-TETE 411 collections, Sir, the desire of augmenting it grows stronger... | |
 | William Samuel Lilly - 1904 - 350 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...it some wonder, and breeding some delight thereto." That seems to me a very fine bit of English. Dr. McCosh is, I think, well warranted when in his book... | |
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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... 
