 | William Hazlitt - English drama - 1845 - 246 pages
...metaphor ; in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit...hitting upon what is strange ; sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose ; often it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English drama - 1845 - 242 pages
...metaphor ; in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense: sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit...hitting upon what is strange ; sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose ; often it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 pages
...metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation, of persons or things, a counterfeit...hitting upon what is strange ; sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose ; often it consists in one knows not what, and springeth up... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 510 pages
...nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a inimical look or gesture passeth for it ; sometimes an affected...hitting upon what is strange ; sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose ; often it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - 1845 - 692 pages
...sisiinulamus, venusta creduptur. — Quint, vi. 3. persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a inimical look or gesture passeth for it : sometimes an affected...presumptuous bluntness giveth it being : sometimes it riseth from a lucky hitting upon what is strange ; sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall - 842 pages
...nonsense : sometimes a sccnical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a inimical look or gesture passeth for it : sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntness, giK'h it being ; sometimes it risclh from a lucky hitting upon what is strange, sometimes from a crafty... | |
 | 1846 - 436 pages
...metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense; sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit...presumptuous bluntness, giveth it being ; sometimes it riseth from a lucky hitting upon what is strange ; sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - Humor - 1846 - 282 pages
...metaphor ; in a plausible reconciling of contradictions ; or in acute nonsense. Sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit...affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntness, gives it being. Sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange ; sometimes from... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1846 - 410 pages
...metaphor ; in a plausible reconciling of contradictions ; or in acute nonsense. Sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit...affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntness, gives it being. Sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange ; sometimes from... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1846 - 290 pages
...gesture, passeth for it. Sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntness, gives it being. Sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange ; sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose. Often it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up... | |
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... an objection: sometimes it is couched in a bold scheme of speech, in a tart irony, in a lusty hyperbole, in a startling metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation of persons or... 
