 | 1917 - 494 Seiten
...appearing in so many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs and so variously apprehended by so many minds and judgments, that it seemeth no less hard to settle...Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying,... | |
 | Louise Mathewson - 1920 - 42 Seiten
...in ?o many shapes, so many postures, • so many garbs and so variously apprehended by so many minds and judgments, that it seemeth no less hard to settle...Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application1 of a trivial saying,... | |
 | 1920 - 390 Seiten
...description. It is, indeed, so versatile and uniform, appearing in so many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs, so variously apprehended by several...a clear and certain notion thereof than to make a picture of Proteus, or to define the figure of floating air." But since the time when metaphysicians... | |
 | James Boswell - 1922 - 354 Seiten
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 | Carolyn Wells - 1923 - 804 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... | |
 | Walter Starkie - 1924 - 226 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 certain notion thereof than to make a picture of Proteus or define the figure of floating air.' The spirit of Benavente that starts off by... | |
 | J. C. Gregory - 1924 - 264 Seiten
...by description. It is indeed a thing so versatile and multiform . . . that it seemeth no less hard to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air " "'. CHAPTER X LAUGHTER AND INSTINCT ACCORDING to a now common notion, of modern origin, we laugh,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1931 - 1260 Seiten
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 | William Hazlitt - 1931 - 422 Seiten
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 | Carolyn Wells - 1933 - 800 Seiten
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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... 
