 | English literature - 1790 - 694 pages
...fhape«,. fo many pofturee, fo many garbs, fo varioufly apprehended by feveral eyes and judgements, that it feemeth no lefs hard to fettle a clear and...certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteui, or to define the figure of the Heeling air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allufion to a known... | |
 | English literature - 1790 - 542 pages
...rarioully apprehended by i'cvenlcyes and judgments, that it icemeth no Icfs hard to. fetde a clesr and certain notion thereof than to make a portrait...of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pr.t al Union to a known ftory, or in feafonnhle application of a tiivial... | |
 | James Boswell - 1791 - 608 pages
...many poftures, fo many garbs, fo varioufly apprehended by feveral eyes and judgements, that it feemcth no lefs hard to fettle a clear and certain notion...of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allufion to a known ftory, or in feafonable application of a trivial... | |
 | William Seward - Anecdotes - 1795 - 684 pages
...poftures, fo many *' garbs, fo varioufly apprehended by feveral eyes •' and judgments, that it fesmeth no lefs hard to " fettle a clear and certain notion...to " make a. portrait of Proteus, or to define the t: figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth " in pat allufion to a known ftory, or in feafonable... | |
 | William Seward - Anecdotes - 1796 - 418 pages
...every fubjecl which he treated. How well-founded this obfervation was, let the following quotatiori, containing a definition of Wit, evince. It is taken...Proteus, or to define the " figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth " in pat allufion to a known ftory, or in feafonable " application of a trivial... | |
 | William Seward - Anecdotes - 1798 - 536 pages
...verfatile and multiform, appearing ia " fo many fhapes, fo many poftures, fo many *? garb?, fo variou(ly apprehended by feveral " eyes and judgments, that...Proteus, " or to define the figure of the fleeting air. ** Sometimes it lieth in pat allufion to a known v ftory, or in feafonable application of a trivial... | |
 | 1802 - 308 pages
...great Divine, " a thing fo verfatile and multiform, appearing in fo many ihapes, fo many poftnres, fo many garbs, fo varioufly apprehended by feveral...of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allulion to a known ftory, or in feafonable application of a trivial... | |
 | William Seward - Anecdotes - 1804 - 492 pages
...fo " varioufly apprehended by feveral eyes and judg" ments, 9 " ments, tint it feefteth no lef»hard to fettle a " clear and certain notion thereof than to make a « portrait of frdtefrs, or to define the figure of "the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allu" fion to a known... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a...of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 548 pages
...garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it seem-1 eth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a...of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial... | |
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... make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the 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 tale; sometimes it playeth in words and phrases,... 
