 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - English literature - 1869 - 420 pages
...garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that itseemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make 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... | |
 | English literature - 1869 - 584 pages
...the usefulness of a little well-timed jocosity. He cannot, he admits, define wit; it would be as easy 'to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air ;' but he does describe the forms that it assumes with his usual fertility of thought and expression... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 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...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... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1871 - 796 pages
...apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notice thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to...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... | |
 | English periodicals - 1871 - 780 pages
...apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notice thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to...define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it Jieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging... | |
 | English prose literature - 1872 - 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...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 - English literature - 1872 - 786 pages
...apprehended by several eyes and judgments, 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. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to л known story, or in seasonable application... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - Literary curiosa - 1874 - 876 pages
...garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it scemcth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a...figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusions to a known, story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in feigning an apposite... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 584 pages
...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...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 pages
...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 story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite... | |
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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,... 
