 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 464 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 eyes and judgments, that it seemeth I no less hard to settle a clear and certain no- ¡ tion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1893 - 708 Seiten
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 | Alphonse Mariette - 1894 - 402 Seiten
...appearing13 inu so many shapes, so many postures,15 and so many garbs,16 — so variously apprehended by 17 several eyes and judgments, that it seemeth no less...hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof 18 than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure 19 of the fleeting air. Sometimes it... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 644 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 to a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 546 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1900 - 372 Seiten
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 | James Boswell - 1900 - 928 Seiten
...description. It is, indeed, a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so many shapes, so many postures, " ) " seemed no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, ¡than to_ make a portrait of Proteus,... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - 1902 - 566 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 eyes and judgments, that it seemcth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1852 - 344 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...to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than 10 make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1903 - 624 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...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... | |
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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... 
