| George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 548 pages
...thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable...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... | |
| George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable...words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity oftheir sense, or the affinity of their sound. Sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expression... | |
| James Boswell - Authors, English - 1807 - 562 pages
...thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or 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 of their... | |
| George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 1152 pages
...thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging ah' apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity... | |
| John Mason Good - 1813 - 480 pages
...figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in a sea* sonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an...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... | |
| John Mason Good - 1819 - 482 pages
...define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it in ih in pat allusion to a known story, or in a seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in...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... | |
| George Burnett - Authors, English - 1813 - 546 pages
...thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable...saying, or in forging an apposite tale : sometimes it playrth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of... | |
| 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
...notice thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable...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... | |
| 1821 - 400 pages
...thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure • of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable...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... | |
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