 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 512 pages
...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 question,...shrewd intimation ; in cunningly diverting or cleverly restoring an objection: sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech; in a tart irony; in a lusty... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 842 pages
...their sound : sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expression; sometimes it lurkcth under an odd similitude ; sometimes it is lodged in a sly question, in a smart ansvrcr, in i quirkish reason, in a shrewd intimation, in cuaninirjj diverting, or cleverly retorting... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...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 question,...bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyoerbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense;... | |
 | 1846 - 586 pages
...their sound ; sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expression ; sometimes it lurkcth under nn odd similitude ; sometimes it is lodged in a sly question,...retorting an objection ; sometimes it is couched in a bold schcmeof speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 282 pages
...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 question...shrewd intimation ; in cunningly diverting or cleverly restoring an objection ; sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech ; in a tart irony ; in... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 290 pages
...dress of luminous egression ;. sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude. Sometimes it is lodged in% sly question ; in a smart answer ; in a quirkish reason...shrewd intimation ; in cunningly diverting or cleverly restoring an objection ; sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech ; in a tart irony ; in... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 410 pages
...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 question : in a smart answer ; in a quirkish reason ; ill a shrewd intimation ; in cunningly diverting or cleverly restoring an objection ; sometimes it... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 386 pages
...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 question ; in a smart answer ; in a qnirkish reason ; in a shrewd intimation ; in cunningly diverting or cleverly restoring an objection... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 416 pages
...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 question ; in a smart answer ; B 2 in a quirkish reason ; in a shrewd intimation ; in cunningly diverting or cleverly restoring... | |
 | 1847 - 610 pages
...The copious detail of Barrow's famous passage on wit is nearly full of varieties of epigrams : — " Sometimes it is lodged in a sly question ; in a smart...in a quirkish reason; in a shrewd intimation ; in a plausible reconciling of contradictions; or in acute nonsense. Sometimes it ariseth only from a lucky... | |
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... 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... 
