 | Voltaire - 1824 - 524 páginas
...eyes and judgments, 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 allusions to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in feigning an apposite... | |
 | James Boaden - 1825 - 646 páginas
...and multiform, 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 al•• lusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a • • trivial saying, or in forging... | |
 | James Boaden - 1825 - 650 páginas
...versatile and multiform, 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 lietlrin pat al" lusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a " trivial saying, or in... | |
 | 1826 - 370 páginas
...eyes and judgments, 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 allusions to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an opposite... | |
 | 1826 - 384 páginas
...eyes and judgments, 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 Moth in pat allusions to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging... | |
 | James Boswell - 1827 - 576 páginas
...eyes and judgements, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notiín thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure...application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite Ule; sometimes it playelh in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1827 - 622 páginas
...eyes and jugements, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain not! in thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure...air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known itory, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale ; sometimes... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - 1830 - 712 páginas
...eyes and judgments, 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...and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of Eadem their sense, or the affinity of their sound: sometimes quie, si im- . . prudcuti- it is wrapped... | |
 | James Flamank - 1833 - 414 páginas
...the image of our mind." Dr. Isaac Barrow observes of wit, — " Sometimes it lieth in pat illusions to a known story, or in seasonable application of...in forging an apposite tale ; sometimes it playeth on words and phrases, taking an advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1834 - 364 páginas
...clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of a fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to...playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the Q ambiguity of- their sense, or the affinity of their .sound : sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of... | |
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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 hard to settle a clear... 
