 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...  A Philosophical Dictionary: From the French - Seite 363von Voltaire - 1824Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 532 Seiten
...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...their sound: sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humourous expression : sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude ; sometimes it is lodged in a sly... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 562 Seiten
...allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an opposite tale; sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking...their sound : sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humourous expression : sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude : sometimes it is lodged in a sly... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 Seiten
...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 oftheir sense, or the affinity of their sound. Sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expression... | |
 | George Burnett - 1813 - 546 Seiten
...in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale : sometimes it playrth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity...sound. Sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expresjion ; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude ; sometimes it is lodged in a sly question,... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 482 Seiten
...in pat allusion to a known story, or in a seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in words and...ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound : somelima it is wrapped in a dress of humoroui expression, sometimes it lufketh under an odd similitude... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1817 - 882 Seiten
...moral proverb, or in forging an apposite fable. " Sometimes it plays in words, and phrases, tak" ing advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, " or...affinity of their sound. " Sometimes it is wrapped in a whimsical dress "of humourous expression. — Sometimes it lurks " under an odd similitude, in smart... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1819 - 368 Seiten
...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...their sound : sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of luminous expression ; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude. Sometimes it is lodged in a sly... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 476 Seiten
...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...their sound : sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humourous expression ; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude : sometimes it is lodged in a sly... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 412 Seiten
...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 serge, or the affinity of their sound : sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expression :... | |
 | James Boswell - 1823 - 440 Seiten
...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 amhiguity of their collections, sir, the desire of augmenting them grows stronger in proportion to... | |
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