 | George Burnett - 1807 - 548 ページ
...diverting, or cleverly retorting an objection : sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme •of speech ; in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole ; in a startling...sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange; sometimes from a crafty wrestling obvious matter to the purpose : often it consists in one... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 532 ページ
...objection : sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyberbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling...representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a mimical look or gesture, passeth for it : sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 1152 ページ
...diverting, or cleverly' retorting an objection : sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme 6f speech ; in a tart irony ; in a lusty hyperbole ; in a Startling...contradictions', or in acute nonsense : sometimes a scehical representation of persons or things; a counterfeit speech; a mimical look or gesture passeth... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 ページ
...diverting, or cleverly retorting an objection : sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme *bf speech ; in a tart irony ; in a lusty hyperbole ; in a startling...contradictions, or in acute nonsense : sometimes a seenical representation of persons or things ; a counterfeit speech; a mimical look or gesture passeth... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 562 ページ
...diverting or cleverly retorting 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 aqute nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1813 - 480 ページ
...diverting or cleverly retorting an objection : sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor,...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... | |
 | George Burnett - 1813 - 546 ページ
...diverting, or cleverly retorting an objection : sometimes it is couched In a bold scheme of speech ; in a tart irony; in a lusty hyperbole; in a startling metaphor;...representation of persons or things ; a counterfeit speech; a mimical look or gesture passeth for it : sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 482 ページ
...diverting or cleverly relortiug 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 contradictious, or in acute nonsense: sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1817 - 882 ページ
...or " startling metaphor, in a colourable reconcilement " of contradictions, or in acute nonsense*. " A scenical representation of persons, or things, " a counterfeit speech, a inimical aspect, or gesture, " passes for it; sometimes an affected simplicity gives " birth to it. Sometimes... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1819 - 368 ページ
...diverting or cleverly restoring an objection : sometimes it is couched in a hold scheme of speech ; in a tart irony ; in a lusty hyperbole ; in a startling...presumptuous bluntness giveth it being; sometimes itriseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange: sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter,... | |
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... under an odd similitude ; sometimes it is lodged in a sly question, in a smart answer, in a quirkish reason, in a shrewd intimation, in cunningly diverting or cleverly retorting an objection ; sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in... 
