 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pages
...gesture, passeth for it. Sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes u presumptuous bluntness, gives 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 whut, and springeth up... | |
 | William Evans Burton - Wit and humor - 1859 - 690 pages
...nonsense. Sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a inimical look or gesture, passeth for it. Sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntness, gives it being. Sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange ; sometimes from... | |
 | William Fleming - Philosophy - 1860 - 698 pages
...metaphor, in 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 riseth from a lucky hitting upon what is strange : sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - Literature - 1860 - 538 pages
...persons or things, a counterfeit speeeh, a mimio look or gesture, passeth for it. Sometimes an affeeted simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntness, giveth...lucky hitting upon what is strange; sometimes from a craf>y wresting of obvious matter to the purpose. Often it consisteth of one knows not what, and springeth... | |
 | Francis Wayland - Philosophy - 1860 - 442 pages
...metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit...passeth for it : sometimes an affected simplicity, sametimes a presumptuous bluntness, giveth it being : sometimes it riseth from a lucky hitting upon... | |
 | William Fleming - Philosophy - 1860 - 710 pages
...nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a mimic.il 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... | |
 | Alphonse Mariette - 1860 - 404 pages
...it, passe pour ctre de 1'esprit. 9 it is lodged, etc objection, il se trouve plac6 dans une question sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntness giveth it being ;—sometimes it ariseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange ; t —often it consisteth in one knows not... | |
 | Henry Reed - English literature - 1860 - 414 pages
...nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a miniical look or gesture, passeth for it: sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous boldness, giveth it being; sometimes it riseth from a lucky hitting upon what is strange, sometimes... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1860 - 766 pages
...an affected simplicity, sometimes a pre sumptuous 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 : often it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up... | |
 | Isaac Barrow, James Hamilton - Clergy - 1861 - 670 pages
...metaphor, in 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 riseth from a lucky hitting upon what is strange ; sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the... | |
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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... 
