 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...  The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - 73 ページJames Boswell 著 - 1823全文表示 - この書籍について
 | Sydney Smith - 1850 - 474 ページ
...advantage of the ambiguity of their " sense, or the affinity of their sound; — sometimes it is " wrapt in a dress of humorous expression ; — sometimes...cunningly " diverting, or cleverly retorting an objection ; — some" times it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a " tart irony, a lusty hyperbole, a... | |
 | James Boswell - 1851 - 322 ページ
...apposite tale; sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound; sometimes it...similitude; sometimes it is lodged in a sly question, ma smart answer, in a quirkish reason, in a shrewd intimation, in cunningly diverting or cleverly retorting... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1854 - 980 ページ
...apposite tale ; sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the 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. Sometimes it is lodged in a sly... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 424 ページ
...apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense or the affinity of their sound : sometimes it...lodged in a sly question, in a smart answer, in a quirkisli reason, in a shrewd intimation, in cunningly diverting or cleverly retorting an objection... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 416 ページ
...apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense or the affinity of their sound : sometimes it...wrapped in a dress of humorous expression : sometimes it lurketli under an odd similitude : sometimes it is lodged in a sly question, in a smart answer, in... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 ページ
...apposite tale: sometimes it playcth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound : sometimes...a smart answer, in a quirkish reason, in a shrewd imitation, in cunningly diverting, or cleverly retorting an objection: sometimes it is couched in a... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1856 - 418 ページ
...words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense or the affinity of their sound. Sometimes it is lodged in a sly question, in a smart...answer, in a quirkish reason, in a shrewd intimation, in a tart irony, in a startling metaphor, or in acute nonsense ; often it consisteth in one hardly knows... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 ページ
...apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound : sometimes...a smart answer, in a quirkish reason, in a shrewd imitation, in cunningly diverting, or cleverly retorting an objection: sometimes it is couched m a... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1857 - 520 ページ
...apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound : sometimes...humorous expression : sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitnde : sometimes it is lodged in a sly question, in a smart answer, in a quirkish reason, in... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 252 ページ
...apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the 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 : sometimes it is lodged in a sly... | |
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