 ... look or gesture, passeth for it: sometimes an affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntness giveth it being: sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange: sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose....  The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow - Page 352by Isaac Barrow, Thomas Smart Hughes - 1830Full view - About this book
 | H. Wharton Griffith - 1849 - 248 pages
...sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange ; sometimes from a crafty wrestling of obvious matter to the purpose. Often it consisteth...what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its waya are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings... | |
 | Henry Rogers - 1850 - 536 pages
...sometimes a presumptuous bluntness giveth it being ; sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange ; sometimes from a crafty wresting...numberless rovings of fancy, and windings of language.' Of all the preceding varieties of wit, next to the ' play with words and phrases,' perhaps Fuller most... | |
 | James Boswell - 1851 - 322 pages
...sometimes a presumptuous bluntness, giveth it being; sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange; sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose. Otten it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable... | |
 | Henry Rogers - 1853 - 478 pages
...sometimes a presumptuous bluntness giveth it being ; sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange ; sometimes from a crafty wresting...numberless rovings of fancy, and windings of language." Of all the preceding varieties of wit, next to the " play with words and phrases," perhaps Fuller most... | |
 | Henry Rogers - 1853 - 470 pages
...sometimes a presumptuous bluntness giveth it being ; sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange ; sometimes from a crafty wresting...purpose. Often it consisteth in one knows not what, and•springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable; being answerable... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1854 - 980 pages
...sometimes a presumptuous bluntness giveth it being ; sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange ; sometimes from a crafty wresting...simple and plain way (such as reason teacheth and knoweth things by,) which by a pretty surprising uncouthness in conceit or expression doth affect and... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 pages
...: sometimes it riseth from a lucky hitting upon what is strange, sometimes from a crafty wrestifig obvious matter to the purpose : often it consisteth...as reason teacheth and proveth things by,) which, ry a pretty surprising uncouthness in conceit or expression, doth affect and amuse the fancy, stirring... | |
 | Rev. Sidney Smith - 1854 - 296 pages
...hitting upon what is strange ; — often it consisteth in one knows not what, and ariseth one knows not how : its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable,...language. It is, in short, a manner of speaking out of the plain way, which, by an uncouthness in conceit or expression, doth amuse the fancy, stirring in it... | |
 | Francis Wayland - 1861 - 444 pages
...sometimes a presumptuous bluntness, giveth it being : sometimes it riseth from a lucky hitting upon what is strange, sometimes from a crafty wresting...consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one knows not how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the rovings of fancy... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1854 - 472 pages
...hitting upon what "is strange;—often it consisteth in one knows not "what, and ariseth one knows not how: its ways are " unaccountable and inexplicable,...to "the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of lan" guage. It is, in short, a manner of speaking out of " the plain way, which, by an uncouthness... | |
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