 | Alphonse Mariette - 1860 - 404 страници
...portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure 3 of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion 4 to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, 5 or in forging an apposite tale ; 6 —sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1861 - 406 страници
...of manners. In the course of his famous definition or description of wit, Barrow says : " Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense or... | |
 | William Minto - 1881 - 596 страници
...of the same kind, and need not be farther illustrated. A large part of the wit consists in " playing in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense or the affinity of their sound." Laud is "a man of low stature, but of high parts;" Dr Field is "that learned divine whose memory smelleth... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1882 - 632 страници
...be mentioned alongside with John Gilpin. They are excellent examples of that species of wit which " playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from...ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound." Tam 0Shanter, by Robert Burns, is a poem of infinitely higher rank. Indeed, it may well be compared... | |
 | John Eadie - 1883 - 568 страници
...thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable...saying, or in forging an apposite tale : sometimes it playcth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of... | |
 | Morris Joseph Fuller - 1884 - 508 страници
...pages of our author. Of his wit, as of wit in general, it may be truly said, that sometimes it lies in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable...their sound ; sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expression ; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude ; sometimes it is lodged in a sly... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 658 страници
...thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable...sense, or the affinity of their sound : sometimes it is wrapt in a dress of humorous expression : sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude : sometimes... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 626 страници
...thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable...sense, or the affinity of their sound: sometimes it is wrapt in a dress of humorous expression : sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude : sometimes... | |
 | Philip Henry Bagenal - 1884 - 398 страници
...Bernal Osborne was as well equipped as any of his class. ' Sometimes it lieth ' (says Dr. Barrow) ' in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable...affinity of their sound ; sometimes it is wrapped up in a dress of humorous expression ; sometimes it lurkcth under an odd similitude ; sometimes it... | |
 | Charles William Bardeen - 1884 - 828 страници
...humorous is mercurial in its manifestations. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in a sea-sonable application of a trivial saying, or in...affinity of their sound ; sometimes it is wrapped up in a dress of humorous expression ; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude ; sometimes it... | |
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Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their... 
