 | Great Britain - 1804 - 658 pages
...phyfiognomies and perfons. Baptifta Porta could not have defcribed their natures better, than by the marks which the poet gives them. The matter and manner of...callings, that each of them would be improper in any other mouth. Even the grave and ferious characters are diítinguiíhed by their feveral forts of gravity:... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English language - 1805 - 924 pages
...the •ction, with this special ofctrvancc, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature. Shakiptxrc. The matter and manner of their tales, and of their telling, are so suitnl to their different educations and humours, that each would be improper in any other. DryiLn.... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 458 pages
...physiognomies and persons. Baptista Porta could not have described their natures better, than by the marks which the poet gives them. The matter and manner of their tales, and of their telling, are so suited to their different educations, humours, and callings, that each of them would be improper... | |
 | John Evans - English prose literature - 1807 - 318 pages
...which the poet gives them. The matter and mauner of their tales, and of their telling, are so suited to their different educations, humours, and callings, that each of them would be improper in any other mouth. Even the grave and scri. ous characters are distinguished by their several sorts of gravity,... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 500 pages
...physiognomies and persons. Baptista Porta* could not have described their natures better, than by the marks which the poet gives them. The matter and manner of their tales, and of their telling, are so suited to their dif* The famous Italian physiognomist. VOL. XI. P ferent educations, humours, and... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 506 pages
...physiognomies and persons. Baptista Porta* could not have described their natures better, than by the marks which the poet gives them. The matter and manner of their tales, and of their telling, are so suited to their dif* The famous Italian physiognomist. VOL. XI. f feient educations, humours, and... | |
 | Robert Burns - Dialect literature, Scottish - 1808 - 496 pages
...very physiognomies and persons. The matter and manner of their Tales, and their telling, are so suited to their different educations, humours, and callings, that each of them would be improper in any other mouth. Even the grave and serious characters are distinguished by their several sorts of gravity... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 620 pages
...phy«iognouiics and persons. Baptista Porta could not have described their natures better, than by the marks which the poet gives them. The matter and manner of their tales, and of their telling, are so suited to their different educations, humours, and callings, tßat each of them would be improper... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 664 pages
...physioguo.-jes and persons. Baptista Porta could not have described their natures better, than by the marks which the poet gives them. The matter and manner of their tales, and of their telling, are so suited to their different educations, humours, and callings, that each of them would be improper... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 612 pages
...which the poet gives them. The matter and manner of their tales, and of their telling, are so suited to their different educations, humours, and callings, that each of them would be improper in any other mouth. Even the grave and serious characters are distinguished by their several sorts of gravity:... | |
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The matter and manner of their tales and of their telling are so suited to their different educations, humours, and callings that each of them would be improper in any other mouth. 
