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... The Gentleman's Magazine - Página 5051871Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 páginas
...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,...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 a fleeting air. Sometimes... | |
| Basil Montagu - 1839 - 398 páginas
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| James Boswell - 1843 - 588 páginas
...that 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,...seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define i in- figure of the fleeting air.... | |
| Isaac Barrow - 1845 - 692 páginas
...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,...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... | |
| John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 páginas
...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,...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 - 512 páginas
...than I can inform him by description. It is, indeed, a tiiing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs,...variously apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that i i ~"""°•^ no less hard to settle a clear and certain notice thereof, than to make a portrait of... | |
| Anna Maria Hall - 842 páginas
...can inform him by description. It is indcol i thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so mast shapes, so 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... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 416 páginas
...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,...a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat Uusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 280 páginas
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| Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 282 páginas
...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,...notice thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or lo define the figure of fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable... | |
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