... 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 an objection sometimes it is couched... The Gentleman's Magazine - Page 5071871Full view - About this book
| George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 548 pages
...answer, in a quifkish reason) in a shrewd intimation, tri cunningly diverting, or cleverly retorting an objection : sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme...representation of persons or things ; a counterfeit speech; a inimical look or gesture passeth for it : sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous... | |
| James Boswell - Authors, English - 1807 - 562 pages
...answer, in a quirkish reason, in a shrewd intimation, hi cunningly diverting or cleverly retorting an objection : sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme...in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in aqute nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a... | |
| 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... | |
| 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 ;...contradictions, or in acute nonsense : sometimes a seenical representation of persons or things ; a counterfeit speech; a mimical look or gesture passeth... | |
| James Boswell - 1807 - 532 pages
...answer, in a quirkish reason, in a shrewd intimation, in cunningly diverting or cleverly retorting an 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... | |
| John Mason Good - 1813 - 480 pages
...answer, in a qnirkish reason, in a shrewd intimation, in cunningly diverting or cleverly retorting an objection : sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme...representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a inimical look or gesture, passeth for it : sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous... | |
| 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... | |
| John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - Authors, English - 1817 - 882 pages
...intimation, in diverting, or in retorting " an objection. VOL. i. I " Sometimes " Sometimes it is to be found in a bold scheme " of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, or " startling metaphor, in a colourable reconcilement " of contradictions, or in acute nonsense*.... | |
| William Hazlitt - English literature - 1819 - 360 pages
...the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound : sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of luminous expression ; sometimes it lurketh under an...in a bold scheme of speech ; in a tart irony ; in a , ^fiЙ^SÛ^«âíCЦ|M^il?ШîШ^ ' . -i 'А1Йщш^ШаЬй1айШ§^ ;'¿ •-^р^й*^^-^^^^ I ^a)S!¡í¿s№^K%^í... | |
| 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...representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a inimical look or gesture passeth for it ; sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous... | |
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