| James Boswell - 1807 - 532 էջ
...metaphor, in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit...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.... | |
| James Boswell - 1807 - 562 էջ
...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... | |
| George Burnett - 1813 - 546 էջ
...metaphor; in a plausible reconciling of contradictions, or in acute nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things ; a counterfeit...purpose : often it consists in one knows not what, and springetJi up one can hardly tell how. Its ways ar« unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable... | |
| John Mason Good - 1813 - 480 էջ
...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... | |
| John Mason Good - 1819 - 482 էջ
...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...hitting upon what is strange; sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose. Often it consistelh in one knows not what, and springeth up... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1819 - 368 էջ
...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,... | |
| James Boswell - 1821 - 412 էջ
...nonsense : sometimes a scenical representation of persons or things, a counterfeit speech, a mimioal 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... | |
| 1821 - 400 էջ
...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... | |
| James Boswell - 1822 - 506 էջ
...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... | |
| James Boswell - 1823 - 440 էջ
...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... | |
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