 | Alphonse Mariette - 1863 - 400 páginas
...13 in u so many shapes, so many postures,15 and so many garbs,16 — so .variously apprehended by17 several eyes and judgments, that it seemeth no less...hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof 18 than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure 19 of the fleeting air. Sometimes it... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 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...a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of a fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 páginas
...appearing in so many shapes, SO many postures, so many garbs, so variously apprehended by several eves and judgments, that it seemeth no less hard to settle...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 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...a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of a fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of... | |
 | 1865 - 496 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 As heavy mules (10) are neither horse nor ass. Those half -learn' d witlings, numerous... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1866 - 536 páginas
...thing 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... | |
 | 1872 - 556 páginas
...WIT. 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...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1872 - 786 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...that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and renain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of a fleeting air.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 584 páginas
...many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgements, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 584 páginas
...shapes, so .many postures, so many garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgements, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait o;" Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known... | |
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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... 
