 | 1846 - 586 páginas
...WIT. Wit Is indeed a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs, so variously apprehended by several...certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of I'rotous. or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in apt allusion to a known... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 416 páginas
...description. 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...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 - 282 páginas
...description. 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...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 - 290 páginas
...description. 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 setUe a clear and certain notice thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure... | |
 | 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 - 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,... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1851 - 322 páginas
...description. 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 seemed no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus,... | |
 | 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...figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite... | |
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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... 
