 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
 | 1865 - 980 pagina’s
...know; and 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...garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgment», that it seemeth no leas hard to settle a clear and certain notice thereof AB heavy mules... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - 1866 - 312 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 the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known... | |
 | Roses - 1867 - 172 pagina’s
...knight-errant, is to encounter with the magician, and free them from his enchantments. Bvtier. WHAT IS WITJ I" T 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,... | |
 | Wayne E. Burton - 1867 - 674 pagina’s
...— " It may be demanded what the thing we speak of is, or what this facetiousness doth import. It is indeed a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing...garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and j udgmcnts, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pagina’s
...know." Any one better apprehends what it is by acquaintance, " then " I can inform mm by description. It is indeed a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing...so many garbs, so variously apprehended by several* (different) eyes and judgments, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof,... | |
 | Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 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 the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known... | |
 | 1871 - 768 pagina’s
...acquaintance, than I can inform him by description ; it is indeed a thing so versatile and multiform, appealing in so many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs,...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... | |
 | 1872 - 556 pagina’s
...fine Englishman and a good rhetorician. — Art of Rhetoric. [ISAAC BARROW, DD 1630—1677.] 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1872 - 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...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.... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1874 - 876 pagina’s
...eminent divine, it occupies a very considerable portion of the realm of wit. He says, " Wit is a thing BO versatile and multiform, appearing in so many shapes,...apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it scemcth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus,... | |
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