 | William Hazlitt - 1903 - 582 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 leemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notice thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus,... | |
 | William Samuel Lilly - 1904 - 350 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 Boswell - 1904 - 726 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 - 1907 - 634 Seiten
...indeed, a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so many shapes, so many postures, so manv garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes 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 - 1907 - 638 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 scemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus,... | |
 | Martha Hale Shackford - 1908 - 496 Seiten
...apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it 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 it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of... | |
 | James Boswell - 1910 - 548 Seiten
...many postures, so many garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgements, that it seemeih no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion...figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusive to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite... | |
 | 1911 - 200 Seiten
...It is indeed, a thing so versatile and multiform, ap72 pearing 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... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1912 - 788 Seiten
...• 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... | |
 | Spencer Summerfield Roche - 1917 - 292 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...portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the floating air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story or in seasonable application of a... | |
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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... 
