 | Henry Wharton Griffith - 1849 - 208 pàgines
...of the term. The various forms of wit are thus enumerated by the celebrated Dr. Barrow : " Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable...their sound ; sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expression ; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude ; sometimes it is lodged in a sly... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1849 - 446 pàgines
...or in forging an "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 is " wrapt in a dress of humorous expression ; —sometimes " it lurketh under an odd similitude;—sometimes... | |
 | Henry Rogers - 1850 - 536 pàgines
...land : hereabouts the angel buried him, and also buried the grave, lest it should occasion idolatry.' allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application...their sound ; sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expression ; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude ; sometimes it is lodged in a sly... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1850 - 420 pàgines
...notion thereof than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometime it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable...it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage of the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound ; — sometimes it is wrapped in a... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1850 - 428 pàgines
...notion thereof than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometime it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable...it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage of the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound ; — sometimes it is wrapped in a... | |
 | James Boswell - 1851 - 322 pàgines
...than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lielh in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable...their sound; sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expression; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude; sometimes it is lodged in a sly... | |
 | Henry Rogers - 1853 - 470 pàgines
...in the pages of our author. Of his wit, as of wit in general, it may be truly said, that " sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable...their sound ; sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expression ; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude ; sometimes it is lodged in a sly... | |
 | Henry Rogers - 1853 - 478 pàgines
...in the pages of our author. Of his wit, as of wit in general, it may be truly said, that " sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable...their sound ; sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expression; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude ; sometimes it is lodged in a sly... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1854 - 980 pàgines
...thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of fleeting air. Sometimes it Jieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable...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... | |
 | Francis Wayland - 1854 - 444 pàgines
...as the best description of wit and its modes of affecting us with which I am acquainted. " Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable...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 cunningly... | |
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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... 
