 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 282 páginas
...which we all see and know : and one better apprehends what it is by acquaintance, than I can inform him by description. It is indeed a thing so versatile...seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notice thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or lo define the figure of fleeting air. Sometimes... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 416 páginas
...which we all see and know; and one better apprehends what it is by acquaintance, than I can inform him by description. It is indeed a thing so versatile...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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 290 páginas
...which we all see and know: and one better apprehends what it is by acquaintance, than I can inform him by description. It is indeed a thing so versatile...eyes and judgments, that it seemeth no less hard to setUe a clear and certain notice thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure... | |
 | 1846 - 436 páginas
...and the sens«s — theie are alive all around us. — The Token. HOGG'S WEEKLY INSTRUCTOR. WIT. Wit is indeed a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so many shapes, so many postures, BO many garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it seemeth no less hard... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 410 páginas
...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... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1849 - 446 páginas
...so subtle, so " versatile, and so multiform, — appearing in so many "shapes, so many postures, and so many garbs, — so " variously apprehended by several...that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and cer" tain notion thereof than to make a portrait of Proteus, " or to define the figure of the fleeting... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1850 - 428 páginas
...so subtile, so versatile, and so multiform, — appearing in so many shapes, so many postures, and so many garbs, — so variously apprehended by several...Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometime it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying,... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1850 - 420 páginas
...so subtile, so versatile, and so multiform, — appearing in so many shapes, so many postures, and so many garbs, — so variously apprehended by several...Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometime it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1851 - 322 páginas
...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...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,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 páginas
...which we all see and know : any ono better apprehends what it is by acquaintance than I can inform him by description. It is indeed a thing so versatile...apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it seerneth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus,... | |
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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... 
