 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...  Wit and Humor of Bench and Bar - Page ivby Marshall Brown - 1899 - 578 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 532 pages
...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...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... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1807 - 562 pages
...in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an opposite tale; sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity...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... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1813 - 546 pages
...in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale : sometimes it playrth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity...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,... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 482 pages
...a 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 sound : somelima it is wrapped in a dress of humoroui expression, sometimes it lufketh under an odd similitude... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - Authors, English - 1817 - 882 pages
...moral proverb, or in forging an apposite fable. " Sometimes it plays in words, and phrases, tak" ing advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, " or...affinity of their sound. " Sometimes it is wrapped in a whimsical dress "of humourous expression. — Sometimes it lurks " under an odd similitude, in smart... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1819 - 360 pages
...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...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1824 - 482 pages
...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 th£ affinity of their sound : sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expression : sometimes... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1826 - 384 pages
...seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an opposite tale; sometimes it playeth on words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity...affinity of their sound ; sometimes it is wrapped up in a dress of humorous expression; sometimes it lurketh under an odd simi-» litude ; sometimes... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1826 - 370 pages
...forging an opposite tale ; sometimes it playeth on words and phrases, taking advantage from the amhiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound; sometimes it is wrapped up in a dress of humorous expression ; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude ; sometimes it... | |
 | James Boswell - 1827 - 576 pages
...in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite Ule; sometimes it playelh in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity...affinity of their sound : sometimes it is wrapped iu a dress of humorous expression : sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude: sometimes it is lodged... | |
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