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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies ... - Page 227
by James Boswell - 1807
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - 1807 - 548 pages
...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,...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...
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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the ..., Volume 3

George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...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 oftheir sense, or the affinity of their sound. Sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expression...
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Pantologia. A new (cabinet) cyclopædia, by J.M. Good, O. Gregory ..., Volume 12

John Mason Good - 1813 - 480 pages
...allusion to a known story, or in a sea* sonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases,...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...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - 1813 - 546 pages
...in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale : sometimes it playrth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity...their sound. Sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expresjion ; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude ; sometimes it is lodged in a sly...
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Pantologia. A new (cabinet) cyclopædia, by J.M. Good, O. Gregory ..., Volume 12

John Mason Good - 1819 - 482 pages
...allusion to a known story, or in a seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases,...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...
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Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century ..., Volume 1

John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1817 - 882 pages
...moral proverb, or in forging an apposite fable. " Sometimes it plays in words, and phrases, tak" ing advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, " or...affinity of their sound. " Sometimes it is wrapped in a whimsical dress "of humourous expression. — Sometimes it lurks " under an odd similitude, in smart...
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Lectures on the English Comic Writers: Delivered at the Surry Institution

William Hazlitt - 1819 - 360 pages
...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,...their sound : sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of luminous expression ; sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude. Sometimes it is lodged in a sly...
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The Christian Journal, and Literary Register, Volume 5

1821 - 400 pages
...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,...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...
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The life of Samuel Johnson. Copious notes by Malone, Volume 4

James Boswell - 1821 - 412 pages
...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 serge, or the affinity of their sound : sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expression :...
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A Philosophical Dictionary: From the French, Volume 6

Voltaire - 1824 - 524 pages
...allusions to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in feigning an apposite tale; sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking...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...
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