 | 1846 - 586 pages
...scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a inimical look or gesture passetti for it ; sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes...presumptuous bluntness, giveth it being ; sometimes it riscth from a lucky hitting upon what is strange ; sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter... | |
 | H. Wharton Griffith - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1849 - 248 pages
...nonsense ; sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a inimical look or gesture, passeth for it ; sometimes an affected...what is strange ; sometimes from a crafty wrestling of obvious matter to the purpose. Often it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can... | |
 | Henry Wharton Griffith - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1849 - 252 pages
...nonsense ; sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a inimical look or gesture, passeth for it ; sometimes an affected...sometimes a presumptuous bluntness giveth it being j sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange ; sometimes from a crafty wrestling... | |
 | Henry Rogers - English essays - 1850 - 542 pages
...metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense; sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit...hitting upon what is strange; sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose. Often it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - Authors - 1850 - 232 pages
...metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense ; sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit...hitting upon what is strange ; sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose. Often it consisteth in one hardly knows what, and springeth... | |
 | Henry Rogers - Biography - 1850 - 536 pages
...nonsense; sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a inimical look or gesture, passeth for it ; sometimes an affected...hitting upon what is strange ; sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose. Often it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up... | |
 | Sydney Smith - Ethics - 1850 - 428 pages
...metaphor, a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense ; — sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit...presumptuous bluntness, giveth it being ; — sometimes it ariseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange ; — often it consisteth in one knows not what,... | |
 | Sydney Smith - Ethics - 1850 - 420 pages
...nonsense ; — sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a inimical look or gesture, passeth for it ; — sometimes an...presumptuous bluntness, giveth it being ; — sometimes it ariseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange ; — often it consisteth in one knows not what,... | |
 | Sydney Smith - Ethics - 1850 - 474 pages
...metaphor, a " plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute " nonsense ; — sometimes a scenical representation of " persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a mimical look "or gesture, passe th for it; — sometimes an affected " simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntness, " giveth... | |
 | James Boswell - 1851 - 322 pages
...nonsense; sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a mimieal look or gesture, passeth for it; sometimes an affected...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... | |
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... 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 a scenical representation of persons or... 
