 | Joseph Berg Esenwein - 1909 - Страниц: 480
...the purpose. Often it consisteth in one hardly knows what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how, being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language." Thus we see that the field of mirth is life — life and its record, literature. In the former it appeals... | |
 | James Boswell - 1910 - Страниц: 548
...affected simplicity, sometimes a presumptuous bluntness giveth it being : sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange, sometimes from...how. Its ways are unaccountable, and inexplicable : beicg answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy, and windings of language. It is. in short, a... | |
 | 1911 - Страниц: 202
...an affected simplicity: sometimes a presumptuous bluntness giveth it being: sometimes it rises 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 proveth things by), which by a pretty surprizing uncouthness in conceit... | |
 | James Boswell - 1911 - Страниц: 644
...as that which I now beheld, would have been an excellent subject for a picture. It presented to my obvious matter to the purpose. Often it consisteth...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... | |
 | 1911 - Страниц: 200
...consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unac73 countable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless...manner of speaking out of the simple and plain way (such as reason teacheth and proveth things by), which by a pretty surprizing uncouthness in conceit... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1912 - Страниц: 788
...affected simplicity, sometimes apresumptuous 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,... | |
 | Spencer Summerfield Roche - 1917 - Страниц: 292
...being; sometimes it riseth from a lucky hitting upon what is strange; sometimes from a crafty resting obvious matter to the purpose; often it consisteth in one knows not what, and springing up one can hardly tell how." He then passes on to set forth at length nine different ways... | |
 | 1917 - Страниц: 494
...sometimes from a crafty wrestling of obvious matter to the purpose; often it consisteth in one knoweth not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are uncountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy, and windings of... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1920 - Страниц: 256
...Sometimes it rises only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange, sometimes from a crafty wresting of obvious matter to the purpose. Often it consisteth...numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language." That wit does not consist in the discovery of a merely unexpected likeness or even contrast in word... | |
 | Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England) - 1920 - Страниц: 514
...giveth it being; sometimes it riseth only from a lucky hitting upon what is strange ; often it consists in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how ". In the Welsh pulpit its pious kind has been much indulged. " Brutus ", in one of his essays upon... | |
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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,... 
