 Sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expression ; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude; sometimes it is lodged in a sly question, in a smart answer, in a quirkish reason, in a shrewd intimation, in cunningly diverting or cleverly retorting...  A Complete Manual of English Literature - Page 210by Thomas Budd Shaw - 1867 - 540 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 548 pages
...it is lodged in a sly question, in a smart answer, in a quifkish reason) in a shrewd intimation, tri cunningly diverting, or cleverly retorting an objection...of contradictions, or in acute nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things ; a counterfeit speech; a inimical look or gesture passeth... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1807 - 562 pages
...it is lodged in a sly question, in a smart answer, in a quirkish reason, in a shrewd intimation, hi cunningly diverting or cleverly retorting an objection...in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in aqute nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...cunningly diverting, or cleverly retorting an objection : sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme *bf speech ; in a tart irony ; in a lusty hyperbole ;...of contradictions, or in acute nonsense : sometimes a seenical representation of persons or things ; a counterfeit speech; a mimical look or gesture passeth... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 1152 pages
...cunningly diverting, or cleverly' retorting an objection : sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme 6f speech ; in a tart irony ; in a lusty hyperbole ;...contradictions', or in acute nonsense : sometimes a scehical representation of persons or things; a counterfeit speech; a mimical look or gesture passeth... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 532 pages
...objection : sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyberbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling...of contradictions, or in acute nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a mimical look or gesture, passeth... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1813 - 480 pages
...under an odd similitude : sometimes it is lodged in a sly question, in a smart answer, in a qnirkish reason, in a shrewd intimation, in cunningly diverting...of contradictions, or in acute nonsense: sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a inimical look or gesture, passeth... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1813 - 546 pages
...lodged in a sly question, in a smart answer, in a quirkish reason, in a shrewd intimation, in cunnmgly diverting, or cleverly retorting an objection : sometimes...of contradictions, or in acute nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things ; a counterfeit speech; a mimical look or gesture passeth... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 482 pages
...answer, in a quirkish reason, in a shrewd intimation, in cunningly diverting or cleverly relortiug an objection : sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme...startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictious, or in acute nonsense: sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1819 - 368 pages
...intimation ; in cunningly diverting or cleverly restoring an objection : sometimes it is couched in a hold scheme of speech ; in a tart irony ; in a lusty hyperbole...of contradictions, or in acute nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a inimical look or gesture passeth... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 476 pages
...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...of contradictions, or in acute nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a inimical look or gesture, passeth... | |
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