 | James Boswell - 1835
...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 - 1835
...postures, so many garbs, so variously apprehended by-several eyes and judgments, that it seemeth no leas hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or. to deinn' the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it In-ill in pat allusion to a known story, or\in... | |
 | 1838
...grace. " 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...define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it Moth in pat allitrion* to a known story, or in seasonable application rf a trivial saying, or in feigning... | |
 | William Evans Burton, Edgar Allan Poe - 1838
...grace" It is indeed a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so many shapes, БО many postures, so many garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it seemelh no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus,... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 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...a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of a fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 350 Seiten
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 | James Boswell - 1843
...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...thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define i in- figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it In-ill in uiit allusion to a known story, or in seasonable... | |
 | Anna Maria Hall
...many postures, so many garbs, so variously apprehended by several cjcs and judgments, that it seemcth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, cr to define the figure of a fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 372 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 no less (95) hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 222 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... | |
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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... 
