 | James Boswell - 1874 - 584 pages
...plain way, (such as reason teacheth and proveth things by,) which by a pretty surprizing uncouthness in conceit or expression, doth affect and amuse the...seeming to argue a rare quickness of parts, that one can fetch in remote conceits applicable ; a notable skill, that he can dexterously accommodate them... | |
 | Literary curiosities - 1876 - 334 pages
...plain way (such as reason teacheth and proveth things by), which by a pretty surprising uncouthness in conceit or expression, doth affect and amuse the...seeming to argue a rare quickness of parts, that one can fetch in remote conceits applicable ; a notable skill, that he can dexterously accommodate them... | |
 | English authors - 1876 - 484 pages
...plain way, (such as reason teacheth and proveth things by,) which by a pretty surprising uncouthness in conceit or expression doth affect and amuse the...seeming to argue a rare quickness of parts, that one can fetch in remote conceits applicable; a notable skill, that he can dexterously accommodate them... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English drama (Comedy) - 1876 - 474 pages
...in conceit or expression doth afl'ect and amuse the fancy, showing in it some wonder, and breathing some delight thereto. It raiseth admiration, as signifying...seeming to argue a rare quickness of parts, that one can fetch in remote conceits applicable ; a notable skill that he can dextrously accommodate them to... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - Authors, English - 1876 - 870 pages
...way — such as reason teacheth and provcth things by — which by a pretty surprising uncouthness a ; and truly, and really, in divers of the ancient...and holy fathers of the church. But little do men p therein. It raiseth admiration, as signifying a nimble sagacity of apprehension, a special felicity... | |
 | Thomas Jackson - 1876 - 428 pages
...unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless ravings of fancy and windings of language. It raiseth admiration, as signifying a nimble sagacity...special felicity of invention, a vivacity of spirit, a reach of wit more than vulgar ; it seemeth to argue a rare quickness of parts, that one can fetch... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - Readers - 1877 - 478 pages
...plain way, (such as reason teacheth and proveth things by,) which by a pretty surprising uncouthness in conceit or expression doth affect and amuse the...vivacity of spirit, and reach of wit more than vulgar : 6 it seeming to argue a rare quickness of parts, that one can fetch in remote conceits applicable... | |
 | Lord William Pitt Lennox - Biography of Europe - 1877 - 378 pages
...plain way (such as reason teacheth, and proveth things by), which, by a pretty surprising uncouthness in conceit or expression, doth affect and amuse the...delight thereto. It raiseth admiration, as signifying PUNNING. 85 a nimble sagacity of apprehension, a special felicity of invention, a vivacity of spirit... | |
 | Lord William Pitt Lennox - 1877 - 360 pages
...it some wonder, and breeding some delight thereto. It raiseth admiration, as signifying PUNNING. 85 a nimble sagacity of apprehension, a special felicity...vivacity of spirit and reach of wit more than vulgar ; it seemeth to argue a rare quickness of parts, that one can fetch in remote conceits applicable, a notable... | |
 | David Jayne Hill - English language - 1877 - 330 pages
...(such as reason teacheth and proveth things by), which, by a pretty surprising uncouthness in aonceit or expression, doth affect and amuse the fancy, stirring in it some wonder, and breeding some delight thtreto. — Barrow. (2) I call it atheism by establishment, when any state, al such, shall not acknowledge... | |
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It is, in short, a manner of speaking out of the simple and plain way, such as reason teacheth and proveth things by, which by a pretty surprising uncouthness in conceit or expression doth affect and amuse the fancy, stirring in it some wonder, and breeding... 
