 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth - 1857
...many postures, so many garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and jndgments, that it secmeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 762 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 lo make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of a fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat... | |
 | Paul Hamilton Payne - 1858
...says that wit is a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs, so variously apprehended by several...judgments, that it seemeth no less hard to settle upon a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure... | |
 | William Evans Burton - 1859
...many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and j udgments, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and...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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859
...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... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1859
...— " 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 seometh no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1859
...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 seemed no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1859
...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 seetneth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteun,... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1860 - 548 Seiten
...He says, "Wit is 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 flecting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusions to a known story, or in seasonable application of... | |
 | Alphonse Mariette - 1860
...versatile, and so multiform— appearing in 1 so many shapes, so many postures, 2 and so many garbs,—so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgments,...make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure 3 of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion 4 to a known story, or in seasonable application... | |
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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... 
