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" ... 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 in a bold scheme of speech, in... "
The Library of Choice Literature and Encyclopędia of Universal Authorship ... - Page 265
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 548 pages
...diverting, or cleverly retorting an objection : sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme •of speech ; in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole ; in a startling...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...
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The life of Samuel Johnson. [With] The principal corrections and ..., Volume 4

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...representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a mimical look or gesture, passeth for it : sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the ..., Volume 3

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 1152 pages
...diverting, or cleverly' retorting an objection : sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme 6f speech ; in a tart irony ; in a lusty hyperbole ; in a Startling...contradictions', or in acute nonsense : sometimes a scehical representation of persons or things; a counterfeit speech; a mimical look or gesture passeth...
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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the ..., Volume 3

George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...diverting, or cleverly retorting an objection : sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme *bf speech ; in a tart irony ; in a lusty hyperbole ; in a startling...contradictions, or in acute nonsense : sometimes a seenical representation of persons or things ; a counterfeit speech; a mimical look or gesture passeth...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Comprehending an Account of ..., Volume 3

James Boswell - Authors, English - 1807 - 562 pages
...diverting or cleverly retorting an objection : sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor,...in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in aqute nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a...
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Pantologia. A new (cabinet) cyclopędia, by J.M. Good, O. Gregory ..., Volume 12

John Mason Good - 1813 - 480 pages
...diverting or cleverly retorting an objection : sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor,...sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange; sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose. Often it consisteth in one...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - Authors, English - 1813 - 546 pages
...diverting, or cleverly retorting an objection : sometimes it is couched In a bold scheme of speech ; in a tart irony; in a lusty hyperbole; in a startling metaphor;...representation of persons or things ; a counterfeit speech; a mimical look or gesture passeth for it : sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous...
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Pantologia. A new (cabinet) cyclopędia, by J.M. Good, O. Gregory ..., Volume 12

John Mason Good - 1819 - 482 pages
...diverting or cleverly relortiug an objection : sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictious, or in acute nonsense: sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit...
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Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century ..., Volume 1

John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - Authors, English - 1817 - 882 pages
...or " startling metaphor, in a colourable reconcilement " of contradictions, or in acute nonsense*. " A scenical representation of persons, or things, " a counterfeit speech, a inimical aspect, or gesture, " passes for it; sometimes an affected simplicity gives " birth to it. Sometimes...
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Lectures on the English Comic Writers: Delivered at the Surry Institution

William Hazlitt - English literature - 1819 - 368 pages
...diverting or cleverly restoring an objection : sometimes it is couched in a hold scheme of speech ; in a tart irony ; in a lusty hyperbole ; in a startling...presumptuous bluntness giveth it being; sometimes itriseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange: sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter,...
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