 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...  Titan: A Monthly Magazine - Pagina 1481846Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 424 pagina’s
...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...apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it seemcth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus,... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1855 - 400 pagina’s
...appearing in so many shapes, so many postures, and so many garbs, — so variously apprehended by^several eyes and judgments, that it seemeth no less hard to...certain notion thereof than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometime it lieth in pat allusion to a known... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 pagina’s
...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...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,... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1856 - 1048 pagina’s
...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,...certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of a fleeting air." The doctor then proceeds to describe it, and concludes... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1856 - 422 pagina’s
...versatile, and so multiform,—appearing in so many shapes, so many postures, and so many garbs,—so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgments,...certain notion thereof than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometime it lieth in pat allusion to a known... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pagina’s
...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...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,... | |
 | william harrison ainsworth - 1857 - 516 pagina’s
...and know: any one better apprehends what it is by acquaintance, than I can inform by description. It is indeed a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing...certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in PAT ALLUSION to a known,... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1857 - 494 pagina’s
...striking specimen of his command of words, we may recall his well-known description of wit : — " It is indeed a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing...certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 242 pagina’s
...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...certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of a fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in a pat allusion to a known... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1857 - 532 pagina’s
...striking specimen of his command of words, we may recall his well-known description of wit : — " It is indeed a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing...certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known... | |
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