 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...nonsense : sometimes a seenical representation of persons or things ; a counterfeit speech; a mimical look or gesture passeth for it : sometimes an affected...hitting upon what is strange; sometimes from a crafty wrestling obvious matter to the purpose : often it consists in one knows not what, and springeth up... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 548 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 wrestling obvious matter to the purpose : often it consists in one knows not what, and springeth up... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 532 pages
...nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a mimical look or gesture, passeth for it : sometimes an affected...giveth it being : sometimes it riseth only from a ^ucky hitting upon what is strange : sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose.... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 1152 pages
...what is strange; Sometimes from a crafty Wrestling obvious matter to the purpose : often it consists in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways ate unaccountable and inexplicable, being answer&Me to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1813 - 480 pages
...nonsense: sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a inimical look or gesture, passeth for it : sometimes an affected...not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. liways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy, and... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 482 pages
...or gesture, p.isieth for it: sometimes an aflVcted simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous Mir M ness giveth it being: sometimes it riseth only from a lucky...crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose. Often it consistelh in one knows not what, and springeth up one con hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1819 - 368 pages
...nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a inimical look or gesture passeth for it ; sometimes an affected...presumptuous bluntness giveth it being; sometimes itriseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange: sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter,... | |
 | 1821 - 400 pages
...apenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a miinical look oj gesture, passetlj for it : sometimes an affected simplicity : sometimes...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... | |
 | Voltaire - Philosophy - 1824 - 524 pages
...nonsense: sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a mimical look or gesture passeth for it. Sometimes an affected...purpose. Often it consisteth in one knows not what, and gems (and I do not here include the counterfeits) are very rarely suited to a serious work, — to... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation of 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 purpose... | |
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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... 
