 | 1865 - 820 ページ
...which by a pretty surprising uncouthness or conceit of cxpres* Sermon xiv. sion doth affect and amnse the fancy, stirring in it some wonder and breeding some delight thereto." Barrow must be allowed to be an excellent judge of wit ; if there is any one on whose opinion we should... | |
 | Basil Montagu, Hannah Mary Rathbone - 1845 - 396 ページ
...language. It is, in short, a manner of speaking out of the simple and plain way (such as reason teacheth and proveth things by), which by a pretty surprising...it some wonder, and breeding some delight thereto.* THE BEE AND THE SPIDEK.f AN honest and charitable mind disposes us, when we see any man endued with... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 ページ
...plain way (such as reason teacheth and proveth things by), which by a pretty surprising uneonthness in conceit or expression doth affect and amuse the...wonder, and breeding some delight thereto. It raiseth admira';on, as signifying a nimble sagacity of apprehension, a special felicity of invention, a vivacity... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 842 ページ
...plain way, (such as reason teacheth and proveth things by,) which by a pretty surprising uncouthncss in conceit or expression doth affect and amuse the...some wonder, and breeding some delight thereto. It raise: ! admiration, as signifying a nimble sagacity of apprehension, a special felicity of invention,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 512 ページ
...in short, a manner of speaking out of the simple and plain way (such as reaaon teacheth and knoweth things by,) which by a pretty surprising uncouthness...conceit or expression doth affect and amuse the fancy, showing in it some wonder, and breathing some delight thereto. It raiseth admiration, as signifying... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 510 ページ
...in short, a manner of speaking out of the simple and plain way (such as reason teacheth and knoweth things by,) which by a pretty surprising uncouthness...conceit or expression doth affect and amuse the fancy, showing in it some wonder, and breathing some delight thereto. It raiseth admiration, as signifying... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - 1845 - 692 ページ
...language. It is, in short, a manner of speaking out of the simple and plain way (such as reason teacheth and proveth things by), which by a pretty surprising uncouthness in conceit or expression doth aflect and amuse the fancy, stirring in it some wonder, and breeding some delight thereto.* It raiseth... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 282 ページ
...in short, a manner of speaking out of the simple and plain way (such as reason teacheth and knoweth things by), which by a pretty surprising uncouthness...conceit or expression doth affect and amuse the fancy, showing in it some wonder, and breathing some delight thereto. It raiseth admiration, as signifying... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 410 ページ
...in short, a manner of speaking out of the simple and plain way (such as reason teacheth and knoweth things by), which by a pretty surprising uncouthness...conceit or expression doth affect and amuse the fancy, showing in it some wonder, and breathing some delight thereto. It raiseth admiration, as signifying... | |
 | 1846 - 586 ページ
...short, a manner of speaking out of the siniplr and plain way (such as reason teacheth and provetti things by), which, by a pretty surprising uncouthness in conceit or expression, doth atfect and amuse the fancy, stirring in it »ome wonder, and breeding some delight thereto. It raiseth... | |
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... in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language. It is, in short, a manner of speaking out of the simple and... 
