 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 512 oldal
...sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntness giveth it being; sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange; sometimes...knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell ho\v. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 oldal
...Sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntness, giveth it being ; sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange ; sometimes...wresting obvious matter to the purpose ; often it consists in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable... | |
 | Basil Montagu, Hannah Mary Rathbone - 1845 - 396 oldal
...sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntness, giveth it being : sometimes it riseth from a lucky hitting upon what is strange, sometimes...wresting obvious matter to the purpose : often it eonsisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable... | |
 | 1846 - 586 oldal
...sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntness, giveth it being ; sometimes it riscth from a lucky hitting upon what is strange ; sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter ti the purpose; often it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how.... | |
 | 1847 - 610 oldal
...reconciling of contradictions; or in acute nonsense. Sometimes it ariseth only from a lucky hitting what is strange : sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose. Its ways are unaccountable anil inexplicable; being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and... | |
 | Henry Wharton Griffith - 1849 - 208 oldal
...sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange ; sometimes from a crafty wrestling of obvious matter to the purpose. Often it consisteth...numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language." Bug. — This word is of Celtic origin, and signifies a ghost or goblin. "Tush, tush, fright boys with... | |
 | H. Wharton Griffith - 1849 - 248 oldal
...sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntness giveth it being ; sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange ; sometimes from a crafty wrestling of obvious matter to the purpose. Often it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth... | |
 | Henry Rogers - 1850 - 542 oldal
...sometimes an affected simplicity ; sometimes a presumptuous bluntness giveth it being ; sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange; sometimes...numberless rovings of fancy, and windings of language.' Of all the preceding varieties of wit, next to the ' play with words and phrases,' perhaps Fuller most... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1850 - 232 oldal
...sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntness, giveth it being ; sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange ; sometimes...matter to the purpose. Often it consisteth in one hardly knows what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how, being answerable to the numberless rovings... | |
 | James Boswell - 1851 - 322 oldal
...sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntness, giveth it being; sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange; sometimes...from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose. Otten it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable... | |
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... an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntness giveth it being : sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange : sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose: often it consisteth in one knows not... 
