 | Sydney Smith - 1850 - 428 pages
...it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, a lusty hyperbole, a startling metaphor, a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute...representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a mimical look or gesture, passeth for it ; — sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1850 - 474 pages
...is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a " tart irony, a lusty hyperbole, a startling metaphor, a " plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in...representation of " persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a mimical look "or gesture, passe th for it; — sometimes an affected " simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1851 - 144 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1851 - 322 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 recom.-i.ing of contradictions, or in acute nonsense; sometimes a scenical representation of persons... | |
 | Henry Rogers - 1853 - 478 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... | |
 | Henry Rogers - 1853 - 470 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... | |
 | Francis Wayland - 1854 - 436 pages
...diverting or cleverly retorting an objection : sometimes it is concealed in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor,...presumptuous bluntness, giveth it being : sometimes it riseth from a lucky hitting upon what is strange, sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 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,...passeth for it : sometimes an affected simplicity, sonytimes a presumptuous bluntness, giveth it being : sometimes it riseth from a lucky hitting upon... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1854 - 980 pages
...diverting or cleverly restoring an objection : sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech ; in a tart irony ; in a lusty hyperbole ; in a startling...representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a mimical look or gesture passeth for it ; sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous... | |
 | Francis Wayland - 1861 - 444 pages
...diverting or cleverly retorting an objection : sometimes it is concealed 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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... 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... 
