 THE WRITINGS OF FULLER, THE CHURCH HISTORIAN. THE writings of Fuller are usually designated by the title of quaint, and with sufficient reason ; for such was his natural bias to conceits, that I doubt not upon most occasions it would have been going out...  Littell's Living Age - Page 181857Full view - About this book
 | Leigh Hunt - English literature - 1811 - 510 pages
...Fuller are usually designated by the title of quaint, and with sufficient reason ; for such was his natural bias to conceits, that I doubt not upon most...expressed himself out of them. But his wit is not always a lumen siccum, a dry faculty of surprizing ; en the contrary, his conceits are oftentimes deeply steeped... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1818 - 288 pages
...Fuller are usually designated by the title of quaint, and with sufficient reason ; for such was his natural bias to conceits, that I doubt not upon most...expressed himself out of them. But his wit is not always a lumen siccum, a dry faculty of surprising; on the contrary, his conceits are oftentimes deeply steeped... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1819 - 780 pages
...the title of quaint, and with sufficient reason ; for such was his natural bias to conceits, that 1 doubt not upon most occasions it would have been going...his way to have expressed himself out of them. But bis wit is not always a /«»«•* siceum, a dry faculty faculty of surprizing ; on th« contrary,... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1819 - 708 pages
...natural bias to conceits, that 1 doubt not upon most occasions it would bave been going out of bis way to have expressed himself out of them. But his wit is not always a lumen siccum, a dry 1819.] faculty of surprizing ; on the contrary, his conceits are oftentimes deeply... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1835 - 376 pages
...Fuller are usually designated by the title of quaint, and with sufficient reason; for such was his natural bias to conceits, that I doubt not upon most...expressed himself out of them. But his wit is not always a lumen siccum, a dry faculty of surprising; on the contrary, his conceits are oftentimes deeply steeped... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1835 - 390 pages
...Fuller are usually designated by the title of quaint, and with sufficient reason; for such was his natural bias to conceits, that I doubt not upon most...expressed himself out of them. But his wit is not always a lumen siccum, a dry faculty of surprising ; on the contrary, his conceits are oftentimes deeply steeped... | |
 | Charles Lamb - English essays - 1836 - 404 pages
...Fuller are usually designated by the title of quaint, and with sufficient reason; for such was his natural bias to conceits, that I doubt not upon most...expressed himself out of them. But his wit is not always a lumen siccum, a dry faculty of surprising ; on the contrary, his conceits are oftentimes deeply steeped... | |
 | Thomas Kerchever Arnold - 1837 - 256 pages
...Fuller are usually designated by the title of quaint, and with sufficient reason; for such was his natural bias to conceits, that I doubt not upon most...expressed himself out of them. But his wit is not .... a dry faculty of surprising ; on the contrary, his conceits are oftentimes deeply steeped in human... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1838 - 486 pages
...Fuller are usually designated by the title of quaint, arid with sufficient reason ; for such was his natural bias to conceits, that I doubt not upon most...expressed himself out of them. But his wit is not always a lumen siccum, a dry faculty of surprising ; on the contrary, his conceits are oftentimes deeply steeped... | |
 | Charles Lamb, Thomas Noon Talfourd - English literature - 1855 - 624 pages
...Fuller are usually designated by the title of quaint, and with sufficient reason ; for such was his natural bias to conceits, that I doubt not upon most...expressed himself out of them. But his wit is not always a lumen siccum, a dry faculty of surprising ; on the contrary, his conceits are oftentimes deeply steeped... | |
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