| 1838 - 448 páginas
...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...define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it Moth in pat allitrion* to a known story, or in seasonable application rf a trivial saying, or in feigning... | |
| William Evans Burton, Edgar Allan Poe - 1838 - 448 páginas
...many postures, so many garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it seemelh no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion...figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pal allusion» to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in feigning an... | |
| Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 páginas
...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...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... | |
| James Boswell - 1843 - 588 páginas
...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...thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define i in- figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it In-ill in uiit allusion to a known story, or in seasonable... | |
| 1844 - 671 páginas
...wit, but it is a difficulty which Barrow has admirably solved in his celebrated analytic passage : "Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story,...seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forcing an apposite tale ; sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage, from the ambiguity... | |
| 1850 - 640 páginas
...his essays and lectures will see that the mirth which they enfold, to use Barrow's words, oftenest " lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying." But his wit is never arbitrary and capricious, and does not run riot ; it is drilled into subordination... | |
| Anna Maria Hall - 842 páginas
...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 to make a portrait of Proteus, cr to define the figure of a fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or... | |
| 1846 - 436 páginas
...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...define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lictli in apt allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging... | |
| 1846 - 586 páginas
...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...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 - 282 páginas
...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...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... | |
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