 | Francis Wayland - 1868 - 436 pages
...intimation 5 in cunningly diverting or cleverly retorting an objection : sometimes it is concealed in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a...in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in jicute nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a... | |
 | Treasury - 1868 - 148 pages
...cunningly diverting, or cleverly retorting an objection : sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme or speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in...of contradictions, or in acute nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation of person or things, a counterfeit speech, a inimical look or gesture passeth... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1869 - 558 pages
...phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound. Sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expression; sometimes...acute nonsense ; sometimes an affected simplicity, Eometimes a presumptuous bluntness, giveth it being; sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting... | |
 | Charles Porterfield Krauth - 1881 - 1080 pages
...sometimes it lurkcth under an odd similitude; 1 Spectator, 62.' a Phil, of Rhet,, bi^ ch 2, sect. 1. WIT— sometimes it is lodged in a sly question, in a smart...of contradictions, or in acute nonsense: sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a inimical look or gesture passeth... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1882 - 632 pages
...answer, in a quirkish reason, in a shrewd intimation, in cunningly diverting or cleverly restoring an objection; sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme...of contradictions, or in acute nonsense; sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a inimical look or gesture passeth... | |
 | John Eadie - 1883 - 568 pages
...affinity of their sound : sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expression : sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude ; sometimes it is lodged in...of contradictions, or in acute nonsense : sometimes a sccnical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a mimical look or gesture passeth... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 626 pages
...affinity of their sound: sometimes it is wrapt in a dress of humorous expression : sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude : sometimes it is lodged in...of contradictions, or in acute nonsense: sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a mimical look or gesture, passeth... | |
 | Philip Henry Bagenal - 1884 - 398 pages
...of their sound ; sometimes it is wrapped up in a dress of humorous expression ; sometimes it lurkcth under an odd similitude ; sometimes it is lodged in...of contradictions, or in acute nonsense ; sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a mimical look or gesture passeth... | |
 | Morris Joseph Fuller - 1884 - 508 pages
...quirkish reason, in a shrewd intimation, in cunningly diverting or cleverly retorting a question ; sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech,...startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradiction, or in acute nonsense ; sometimes a scenical representation of persons and things, a... | |
 | Charles William Bardeen - 1884 - 828 pages
...cleverly retorting an objection ; sometimes it is concealed in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling...of contradictions, or in acute nonsense; sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a mimical look or gesture passeth... | |
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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, in a smart answer, in a quirkish reason, in a shrewd intimation, in cunningly diverting or cleverly retorting... 
