 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
 | 1846 - 586 páginas
...alive all around us.— The Token. WIT. Wit 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 I'rotous. or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 290 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,...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
...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...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... | |
 | 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 - 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...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. Sometime... | |
 | 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...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. Sometime... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1850 - 474 páginas
...by several eyes and judgments, " 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 air. Sometime " it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in season" able application of a trivial saying,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1851 - 322 páginas
...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,...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,... | |
 | 1851 - 424 páginas
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 | Rev. Sidney Smith - 1854 - 296 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...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... | |
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