...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...

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...many postures, so many garbs, Dr. Barrow's so variously apprehended by several eyes and description, judgments, that it seemeth no less hard to settle...figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in a pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an...

...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...to settle a clear and certain notion thereof than tomake a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat...

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...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...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...

...description. It is, indeed, a thing so versatileand multiform, appearing in so many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that if seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof than to make a portrait of Proteus,...

...description. It is, indeed, a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so many shapes, so many postures, i C seemed no 1саь hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a 'portrait of Proteus,...

...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 certain notice thereof than to make a portrait of Proteus." He goes on to say : " Sometimes it playeth in words...

...them into the alembic. Barrow says of Humor : " It is a thing so versatile and multiform that it seems no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion...Proteus or to define the figure of the fleeting air." We usually include under the general term all forms of pleasantry, grotesqueness, drollery, sarcasm,...