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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... "
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Page 73
by James Boswell - 1823
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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the ..., Volume 3

George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity oftheir sense, or the affinity of their sound. Sometimes it...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...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - 1807 - 548 pages
...apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound. Sometimes it...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...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the ..., Volume 3

George Burnett - 1807 - 1152 pages
...apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound. Sometimes it...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...
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The life of Samuel Johnson. [With] The principal corrections and ..., Volume 4

James Boswell - 1807 - 532 pages
...apposite tale ; sometimes it playeth 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 humourous expression : sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude ; sometimes it is lodged in a sly...
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Pantologia. A new (cabinet) cyclopædia, by J.M. Good, O. Gregory ..., Volume 12

John Mason Good - 1813 - 480 pages
...apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound : sometimes...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...
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Pantologia. A new (cabinet) cyclopædia, by J.M. Good, O. Gregory ..., Volume 12

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...shrewd intimation, in cunningly diverting or cleverly relortiug an objection : sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - 1813 - 546 pages
...apposite tale : sometimes it playrth 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 expresjion ; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude ; sometimes it is lodged in a sly question,...
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Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century ..., Volume 1

John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1817 - 882 pages
...apposite fable. " Sometimes it plays in words, and phrases, tak" ing advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, " or the affinity of their sound. " Sometimes it is wrapped in a whimsical dress "of humourous expression. — Sometimes it lurks " under an odd similitude, in smart...
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Lectures on the English Comic Writers: Delivered at the Surry Institution

William Hazlitt - 1819 - 368 pages
...apposite tale : sometimes it playeth 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 luminous expression ; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude. Sometimes it is lodged in a sly...
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The Christian Journal, and Literary Register, Volume 5

1821 - 400 pages
...apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound : sometimes...a smart answer, in a quirkish reason, in a shrewd imitation, in cunningly diverting, or cleverly retorting, an objection : sometimes it is couched in...
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