 | Francis Wayland - 1861 - 444 Seiten
...as the best description of wit and its modes of affecting us with which I am acquainted. " Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable...taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, OP the affinity of their sound : sometimes it is lodged in a sly question, in a smart answer, in a... | |
 | Rev. Sidney Smith - 1854 - 296 Seiten
...thereof than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable...it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage of the ambiguity of their' sense, or the affinity of their sound ; — sometimes it is wrapt in a dress... | |
 | Francis Wayland - 1854 - 436 Seiten
...as the best description of wit and its modes of affecting us with which I am acquainted. " Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable...application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite talc : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense,... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1854 - 472 Seiten
...apposite tale ; — sometimes it playeth in 'words and phrases, taking advantage of the ambi' guity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound ; ' — sometimes it is wrapt in a dress of humorous ex'pression; — sometimes it lurketh under an odd ' similitude ; —... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 424 Seiten
...than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of a fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in a pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application...their sound : sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expression : sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude : sometimes it is lodged in a sly... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 416 Seiten
...than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of a fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in a pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application...their sound : sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expression : sometimes it lurketli under an odd similitude : sometimes it is lodged in a sly... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1855 - 408 Seiten
...notion thereof than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometime it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging aji apposite tale ; — sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage of the ambiguity... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 Seiten
...notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of a fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable...saying, or in forging an apposite tale: sometimes it playcth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1856 - 1048 Seiten
...calamitous story without provokmg laughter. In the description of wit, given by Barrow, he says, " Sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking...ambiguity of their sense or the affinity of their sound." Now this is the general character of Hood's wit. It is generally in the form of the pun. A mere punster... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1856 - 418 Seiten
...the creatures of a midsummer's dream. "Sometimes their facetiousness lieth," as Barrow says, " in a pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying. Sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense or the... | |
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Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a 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... 
