 | William Evans Burton - Wit and humor - 1859 - 690 pages
...many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and j udgments, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and...a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pages
...description. It is indeed a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs, so variously apprehended by several...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 fleeting air. Sometimes... | |
 | James Hamilton - Christian literature, English - 1859 - 444 pages
...— " It 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 judgments, that it seometh no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1859 - 316 pages
...description. It 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 judgments, that it seemed no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus,... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1859 - 472 pages
...description. It 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 judgments, that it seetneth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteun,... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - Literature - 1860 - 538 pages
...He says, "Wit is a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs, so variously apprehended by several...portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the flecting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusions to a known story, or in seasonable application of... | |
 | Alphonse Mariette - 1860 - 404 pages
...versatile, and so multiform— appearing in 1 so many shapes, so many postures, 2 and so many garbs,—so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgments,...make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure 3 of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion 4 to a known story, or in seasonable application... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1860 - 778 pages
...description. It 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 judgments, that it seerneth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus,... | |
 | John Selby Watson - Classicists - 1861 - 478 pages
...its positions from ancient and modern literature : "It is indeed a thing so versatile and multiform, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and...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 - 1863 - 788 pages
...description. It is indeed a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs, so variously apprehended by several...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... | |
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Tis that which we all see and know." Any one better apprehends what it is by acquaintance than I can inform him by description. It is indeed a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs, so variously... 
