| James Boswell - 1807 - 532 pages
...simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntness giveth it being : sometimes it riseth only from a ^ucky hitting upon what is strange : sometimes from a crafty...consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one «an hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable, and inexplicable; being answerable to the numberless... | |
| George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 548 pages
...what is strange; sometimes from a crafty wrestling obvious matter to the purpose : often it consists in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly...and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless i-ovings of fancy and windings of language. It is, in short, a manner of speaking out of the simple... | |
| George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...look or gesture passeth for it : sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntness giveth it being : sometimes it riseth only from a...hitting upon what is strange; sometimes from a crafty wrestling obvious matter to the purpose : often it consists in one knows not what, and springeth up... | |
| George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 1152 pages
...look or gesture passeth for it : sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntness giveth it being: sometimes it riseth only from a lucky...hitting upon what is strange; Sometimes from a crafty Wrestling obvious matter to the purpose : often it consists in one knows not what, and springeth up... | |
| John Mason Good - 1813 - 480 pages
...look or gesture, passeth for it : sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntness giveth it being: sometimes it riseth only from a lucky...not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. liways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy, and... | |
| John Mason Good - 1819 - 482 pages
...or gesture, p.isieth for it: sometimes an aflVcted simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous Mir M ness giveth it being: sometimes it riseth only from a lucky...crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose. Often it consistelh in one knows not what, and springeth up one con hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable... | |
| 1821 - 400 pages
...sometimes an affected simplicity : sometimes a presumptuous bluntness giveth it being : sometimes it riseth from a lucky hitting upon what is strange ; sometimes...crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose. Often it oonsisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable,... | |
| Voltaire - Philosophy - 1824 - 524 pages
...look or gesture passeth for it. Sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntness giveth it being. Sometimes it riseth only from a lucky...purpose. Often it consisteth in one knows not what, and gems (and I do not here include the counterfeits) are very rarely suited to a serious work, — to... | |
| James Boaden - Actors - 1825 - 646 pages
...' ' it : sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a pre" sumptuous bluntness gives it being — often it consisteth in " one knows not what, and springeth..."answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and wind " ings of language. — It raiseth admiration as signifying a " nimble sagacity of apprehension,... | |
| James Boaden - Actors - 1825 - 650 pages
...an affected simplicity, sometimes a pre" sumptuous bluntness gives it being — often it consistcth in " one knows not what, and springeth up one can...answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and wind" ings of language. — It raiseth admiration as signifying a " nimble sagacity of apprehension,... | |
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