 that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonal! application of a trivial saying,...  Boswell's Life of Johnson - 365. oldalszerző: James Boswell - 1904Teljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | 1864 - 654 oldal
...multiform, appearing in BO many shapes and garbs, eo variously apprehended liy several eyes and judgments, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and...of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting wind." Abandoning, therefore, an attempt at a definition, he proceeds to examples, including among... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 oldal
...many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 oldal
...many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs, so variously apprehended by several eves and judgments, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and...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... | |
 | Francis Wayland - 1865 - 444 oldal
...Dr. Barrow as the best description of wit and its modes of affecting us with which I am acquainted. " Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1866 - 536 oldal
...shapes, so many postures, and so many garbs,—so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and...Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale ;—sometimes it playeth... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - 1866 - 312 oldal
...many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and...Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale; sometimes it playeth in... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1866 - 502 oldal
...many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and...a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of f fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in a pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application... | |
 | Roses - 1867 - 172 oldal
...many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and...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... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1867 - 426 oldal
...many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgments, 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 a pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application... | |
 | Wayne E. Burton - 1867 - 674 oldal
...many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and j udgmcnts, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and...thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define tlie figure of fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable... | |
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