 Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale ; sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their...  English Prose: Its Elements, History, and Usage - 342 ページJohn Earle 著 - 1890 - 530 ページ全文表示 - この書籍について
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 ページ
...phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity oftheir sense, or the affinity of their sound. Sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expression ; sometimes...answer, in a quirkish reason, in a shrewd intimation, Iil cunningly diverting, or cleverly retorting an objection : sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 548 ページ
...phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound. Sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expression ; sometimes...lodged in a sly question, in a smart answer, in a quifkish reason) in a shrewd intimation, tri cunningly diverting, or cleverly retorting an objection... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 1152 ページ
...phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound. Sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expression ; sometimes...is lodged in a sly question, in a smart answer, in aquirkith reason, in a shrewd intimation, 1ft cunningly diverting, or cleverly' retorting an objection... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 562 ページ
...ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound : sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humourous expression : sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude...answer, in a quirkish reason, in a shrewd intimation, hi cunningly diverting or cleverly retorting an objection : sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 482 ページ
...affinity of their sound : somelima it is wrapped in a dress of humoroui expression, sometimes it lufketh under an odd similitude : sometimes it is lodged in...shrewd intimation, in cunningly diverting or cleverly relortiug an objection : sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1813 - 480 ページ
...phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound : sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expression, sometimes...lodged in a sly question, in a smart answer, in a qnirkish reason, in a shrewd intimation, in cunningly diverting or cleverly retorting an objection... | |
 | George Burnett - 1813 - 546 ページ
...sense, or the affinity of their sound. Sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expresjion ; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude ; sometimes...answer, in a quirkish reason, in a shrewd intimation, in cunnmgly diverting, or cleverly retorting an objection : sometimes it is couched In a bold scheme of... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1819 - 368 ページ
...ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound : sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of luminous expression ; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude....shrewd intimation ; in cunningly diverting or cleverly restoring an objection : sometimes it is couched in a hold scheme of speech ; in a tart irony ; in... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 412 ページ
...phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their serge, or the affinity of their sound : sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expression : sometimes...retorting an objection : sometimes it is couched in ^ bmd scheme of speech, in a tart irony. in all collections, sir, the desire of augmenting them grows... | |
 | 1821 - 400 ページ
...phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound : sometimes it is •wrapped in 'a dress of humorous expression :...a smart answer, in a quirkish reason, in a shrewd imitation, in cunningly diverting, or cleverly retorting, an objection : sometimes it is couched in... | |
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