 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 548 pages
...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. Sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expression ; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude; sometimes it is lodged... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1807 - 562 pages
...a trivial saying, or in forging an opposite tale; sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the...affinity of their sound : sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humourous expression : sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude : sometimes it is lodged... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 532 pages
...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: sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humourous expression : sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude ; sometimes it is lodged... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in 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 ; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude ; sometimes it is lodged... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1813 - 480 pages
...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 : sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expression, sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude : sometimes it is lodged... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 482 pages
...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1819 - 368 pages
...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 : sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of luminous expression ; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude. Sometimes it is lodged... | |
 | 1821 - 400 pages
...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...of their sound : sometimes it is •wrapped in 'a dress of humorous expression : sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude: sometimes it is lodged... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 412 pages
...tale ; sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their serge, or the 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1823 - 440 pages
...that some time or other that should be the case with him." Mr. Wilkes said to me, loud enough for Dr. sense, or the 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... | |
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