 | Isaac Barrow, Thomas Smart Hughes - 1830 - 540 pàgines
...plain way, (such as reason teacheth and proveth things by,) which by a pretty surprising uncouthness in conceit or expression doth affect and amuse the...seeming to argue a rare quickness of parts, that one can fetch in remote conceits applicable ; a notable skill, that he can dexterously accommodate them... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - 1830 - 712 pàgines
...delight thereto. It ve r' .-.--- dicatur. raiseth admiration, as signifying a nimble sagacity of Quint. apprehension, a special felicity of invention, a vivacity...seeming to argue a rare quickness of parts, that one can fetch in remote conceits applicable ; a notable skill, that he can dexterously accommodate them... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 592 pàgines
...plain way (sach as reason teacheth and proveth things by), which, by a pretty surprising uncovithness in conceit or expression, doth affect and amuse the...seeming to argue a rare quickness of parts, that one can fetch in remote conceits applicable ; a notable skill, that he can dexterously accommodate them... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 584 pàgines
...plain way (ijch as reason tescheth and proveth things by), which, by a pretty surprising uncouthness in conceit or expression, doth affect and amuse the...of wit more than vulgar; it seeming to argue a rare quiekress of parts, that one can fetch in remote conceits applicable; a notable skill, that he can... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 456 pàgines
...things by), which, by a pretty surprising uncouthncss in conceit or expression, doth affect and amute the fancy, stirring in it some wonder, and breeding...vivacity of spirit, and reach of wit more than vulgar; it teeming to argue a rare quickness of parts, that one can fetch in remote conceiU applicable ; a notable... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 590 pàgines
...as reason teacheth and proveth things by), which, by a pretty Surprising uncouthneas in conceit of expression, doth affect and amuse the fancy, stirring...delight thereto. It raiseth admiration, as signifying a nirnble sagacity of apprehension, a special felicity of invention, a vivacity of spirit, and reach... | |
 | George Coles - 1836 - 406 pàgines
...unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and turns of language. It raiseth admiration, as signifying a nimble sagacity...of spirit, and reach of wit more than vulgar ; it seemeth to argue a rare quickness of parts — a notable skill that can dexterously accommodate itself... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 pàgines
...plain way (such as reason teacheth and proveth thing•s by), which by a pretty surprising uncouthness in conceit or expression doth affect and amuse the...it some wonder, and breeding some delight thereto.* * Sera. xiv. Against Foolish Talking and Jesting. Is not all laughter the sign of a sudden agreeable... | |
 | James Boswell - 1843 - 588 pàgines
...as reason teacheth and proveth things by), which, by a pretty surprising uncouthness in conceit of expression, doth affect and amuse the fancy, stirring...some wonder, and breeding some delight thereto. It raiaeth admiration, as signifying a nimble sagacity of apprehension, a special felicity of invention,... | |
 | 1847 - 640 pàgines
...effects of comparison and epigram, as we have denned them, to the exclusion of the ludicrous : — , "It raiseth admiration, as signifying a nimble sagacity...vivacity of spirit ; and reach of Wit more than vulgar. Whence, in Aristotle, such persons are termed tmitítoi, dexterous men, and svrgoTioi, men of facile... | |
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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 affect and amuse the fancy, stirring in it some wonder, and breeding... 
