 | James Boswell - 1901 - Страниц: 510
...what is strange : sometimes from a crafty wresting obvious matter to the purpose. Often it consisted) in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly...manner of speaking out of the simple and plain way, (such as reason teacheth and proveth things by,) which by a pretty surprising uncouthness in conceit... | |
 | George Wright Buckley - 1901 - Страниц: 232
...gesture, passeth for wit ; . . . sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange. . . . Often it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth...numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language. — Barrow. Introduction TO exempt nothing from inquiry is the marked attitude of our age. The maxim... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton Thompson, Thomas Budd Shaw - 1901 - Страниц: 862
...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." § 3. A large mass of Butler's miscellaneous writings has been published ; and a curious discovery... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - Страниц: 566
...affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntness, giveth it being ; sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange ; sometimes from...wresting obvious matter to the purpose ; often it consists in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1903 - Страниц: 586
...affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntness giveth it being : sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange : sometimes from...manner of speaking out of the simple and plain way (such as reason teacheth and knoweth things by), which by a pretty surprising uncouthness in conceit... | |
 | James Boswell - 1852 - Страниц: 344
...affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntness, giveth it being; sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange ; sometimes from...it consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth tip one can hardly tell how. Its ways arc unaecountable and inexplicable; being answerable to the numberless... | |
 | James Boswell - 1904 - Страниц: 726
...affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntness giveth it being : sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange : sometimes from...manner of speaking out of the simple and plain way, fsuch as reason teacheth and proveth things by,) which by a pretty surprising uncouthness in conceit... | |
 | William Samuel Lilly - 1904 - Страниц: 350
...affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntness giveth it being : sometimes it riseth from a lucky hitting upon what is strange, sometimes from...one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable, being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language. It is, in short, a manner... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1865 - Страниц: 822
...which we are acquainted is contained in Barrow's Sermons.* " Its ways," says the learned Doctor, " are unaccountable and inexplicable ; being answerable...fancy and 'windings of language. It is, in short, я manner of speaking out of the simple and plain way (such as reason teacheth and showcth things by)... | |
 | Martha Hale Shackford, Margaret Judson - 1908 - Страниц: 496
...affected simplicity ; sometimes a presumptuous bluntness giveth it being; sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange: sometimes from...consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up we can hardly tell how.—BARROW. Beauty.—Beauty of style is gained by the presence of clearness,... | |
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... 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. Often it consisteth in one knows not what,... 
