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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the close of ... - Page 417
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Our Christian Classics: Readings from the Best Divines with ..., Volume 2

James Hamilton - Christian literature, English - 1857 - 532 pages
...of contradictions, or in acute nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation of persons or tilings, a counterfeit speech, a mimical look or gesture passeth...sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntncss, giveth it being : sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange ; sometimes...
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 109

Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1857 - 574 pages
...nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a mímica) look or gesture passeth for it : sometimes an affected...simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntness giveth it beinp : sometimes it riseth from a lucky hitting upon what is strange ; sometimes from a crafty wresting...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 55

American periodicals - 1857 - 850 pages
...metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense; sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a mimical look or t[ ftlount Carmel, the Jewish Parnassus, whore the prophet« were so conversant. '' "Aphek, whoso walla...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1858 - 780 pages
...metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit...it : sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a pre sumptuous bluntness, giveth it being : sometimes it riseth from a lucky hitting upon what is strange,...
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Our Christian Classics: Readings from the Best Divines with ..., Volume 2

James Hamilton - Christian literature, English - 1859 - 444 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 consists in one knows not what, and springeth up...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Comprehending an Account of ..., Volume 4

James Boswell - Authors, English - 1859 - 320 pages
...metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense ; sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit...affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntness, givcth it being; sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange; sometimes from...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1859 - 780 pages
...metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit...it: sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a pro sumptuous btuntnCSSt g-iveth it being : sometimes it riseth from a lucky hitting Upoo w}lat jg...
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The theological works of Isaac Barrow, ed. by A. Napier, Volume 2

Isaac Barrow - Theology - 1859 - 584 pages
...nonsense: sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a inimical look or gesture passeth for it : sometimes an affected...presumptuous bluntness giveth it being: sometimes it riseth from a lucky hitting upon what is strange, sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose:...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of His Tour ..., Volume 4

James Boswell - Authors, English - 1859 - 472 pages
...nonsense; sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a 1nimical look or gesture, passeth for it ; sometimes an affected...presumptuous bluntness giveth it being ; sometimes it rlseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange ; sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter...
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The opuscula; poemata; two dissertations; sermons &c. attributed to Barrow ...

Isaac Barrow - Theology - 1859 - 888 pages
...nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a inimical look or gesture passeth for it : sometimes an affected...presumptuous bluntness giveth it being : sometimes it riaeth from a lucky hitting upon what is strange, sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to...
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