 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
 | Francis Wayland - 1871 - 444 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...intimation, in cunningly diverting or cleverly retorting aa objection : sometimes it is concealed in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole,... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 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 lurkcth under an odd similitude ; sometimes it is lodged in a sly question, in a smart answer, in a... | |
 | 1871 - 780 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 luminous expression ; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude. Sometimes it is lodged in a sly... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1872 - 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...it is lodged in a sly question, in a smart answer, maquirkish reason, in a shrewd imitation, in cunningly diverting, or cleverly retortin? an objection:... | |
 | 1872 - 566 ページ
...wrapped in a dress of humorous expression: soinct mes it "lurketh under an odd similitude : sometime, it is lodged in a sly "question, in a smart answer, in a qui.kisu reason, in a anrewd inti" m.tion in cunningly diverting, or cleverly retorting an objection:... | |
 | John Eglington Bailey - 1874 - 896 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...intimation, in cunningly diverting or cleverly retorting a question ; sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole,... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1874 - 876 ページ
...apposite tale ; sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage of the ambiyuity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound ; sometimes...quirkish reason, in a shrewd intimation, in cunningly, divertingly, or cleverly retorting an objection ; sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 584 ページ
...ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound : someiimes it is wrapped in a dress of humourous expression : sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude...question, in a smart answer, in a quirkish reason, in i shrewd intimation, in cunningly diverting or cleverly retorting an objection : sometimes it is couched... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 584 ページ
...apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage fr im 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... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1875 - 868 ページ
...apposite tale ; sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage of the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound; sometimes it...lodged in a sly question, in a smart answer, in a quirJcish reason, in a shrewd intimation, in cunningly, divertingly, or cleverly retorting an objection... | |
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