 ... 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 reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation of persons...  Cathedral Stones, and Other Discourses - Page 255by Spencer Summerfield Roche - 1917 - 255 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 548 pages
...startling metaphor; in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things ; a counterfeit...presumptuous bluntness giveth it being : sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange; sometimes from a crafty wrestling obvious matter to... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1807 - 562 pages
...startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in aqute nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit...presumptuous bluntness giveth it being : sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange : sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 1152 pages
...nonsense : sometimes a scehical representation of persons or things; a counterfeit speech; a mimical look or gesture passeth for it : sometimes an affected...presumptuous bluntness giveth it being: sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange; Sometimes from a crafty Wrestling obvious matter to... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...nonsense : sometimes a seenical representation of persons or things ; a counterfeit speech; a mimical look or gesture passeth for it : sometimes an affected...presumptuous bluntness giveth it being : sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange; sometimes from a crafty wrestling obvious matter to... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 532 pages
...nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a mimical look or gesture, passeth for it : sometimes an affected...presumptuous bluntness giveth it being : sometimes it riseth only from a ^ucky hitting upon what is strange : sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1813 - 480 pages
...startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense: sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit...presumptuous bluntness giveth it being: sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange; sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 482 pages
...startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictious, or in acute nonsense: sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a inimical look or gesture, p.isieth for it: sometimes an aflVcted simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous Mir M ness giveth it being:... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1819 - 368 pages
...startling metaphor ; in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit...presumptuous bluntness giveth it being; sometimes itriseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange: sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter,... | |
 | 1821 - 400 pages
...apenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a miinical look oj gesture, passetlj for it : sometimes an affected simplicity : sometimes...hitting upon what is strange ; sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose. Often it oonsisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 412 pages
...nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a mimioal look or gesture, passeth for it : sometimes an affected...presumptuous bluntness giveth it being : sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange : sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to... | |
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