 | James Baldwin - 1882 - 632 Seiten
...Wit," says he, " is a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs, so variously apprehended by several...seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notice thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus or to define the figure of fleeting air. Sometimes... | |
 | John Nichol - 1882 - 492 Seiten
...humour, "is a thing so versatile and multiform that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear notice thereof than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in allusion to a known story or saying, sometimes in forging an apposite... | |
 | John Nichol - 1882 - 496 Seiten
...humour, "is a thing so versatile and multiform that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear notice thereof than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in allusion to a known story or saying, sometimes in forging an apposite... | |
 | John Eadie - 1883 - 568 Seiten
...he says, "indeed a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs, so variously apprehended by several...figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 626 Seiten
...description. It is, indeed, a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs, so variously apprehended by several...figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite... | |
 | James McCosh - 1887 - 294 Seiten
...description. It is indeed a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs, so variously apprehended by several...figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - 1887 - 200 Seiten
...description. It is indeed a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs, so variously apprehended by several...figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite... | |
 | Joseph Baldwin - 1887 - 360 Seiten
...description. It is, indeed, a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs, so variously apprehended by several...Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 652 Seiten
...many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgements, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and...figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 470 Seiten
...apprehended by several eyes and judgements, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certam notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus,...figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite... | |
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Tis that which we all see and know." Any one better apprehends what it is by acquaintance than I can inform him by description. It is indeed a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs, so variously... 
