 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...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...answer, in a quirkish reason, in a shrewd intimation, Iil cunningly diverting, or cleverly retorting an objection : sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 548 pages
...in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound. Sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous...lodged in a sly question, in a smart answer, in a quifkish reason) in a shrewd intimation, tri cunningly diverting, or cleverly retorting an objection... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 1152 pages
...in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound. Sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous...is lodged in a sly question, in a smart answer, in aquirkith reason, in a shrewd intimation, 1ft cunningly diverting, or cleverly' retorting an objection... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 532 pages
...ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound: sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humourous expression : sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude...quirkish reason, in a shrewd intimation, in cunningly diverting or cleverly retorting an objection : sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 562 pages
...ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound : sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humourous expression : sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude...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... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1813 - 480 pages
...in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound : sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous...lodged in a sly question, in a smart answer, in a qnirkish reason, in a shrewd intimation, in cunningly diverting or cleverly retorting an objection... | |
 | George Burnett - 1813 - 546 pages
...sense, or the affinity of their sound. Sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expresjion ; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude ; sometimes...answer, in a quirkish reason, in a shrewd intimation, in cunnmgly diverting, or cleverly retorting an objection : sometimes it is couched In a bold scheme of... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 482 pages
...affinity of their sound : somelima it is wrapped in a dress of humoroui expression, sometimes it lufketh under an odd similitude : sometimes it is lodged in...quirkish reason, in a shrewd intimation, in cunningly diverting or cleverly relortiug an objection : sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech,... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1819 - 368 pages
...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 odd similitude....quirkish reason ; in a shrewd intimation ; in cunningly diverting or cleverly restoring an objection : sometimes it is couched in a hold scheme of speech ;... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 476 pages
...ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound : sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humourous expression ; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude...quirkish reason, in a shrewd intimation, in cunningly diverting or cleverly retorting an objection : sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech,... | |
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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... 
