 ... 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,...  The European Magazine, and London Review - Page 3381790Full view - About this book
 | John Eadie - Bible - 1883 - 568 pages
...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 portrait...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 - 1884 - 626 pages
...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 portrait...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... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - Christian life - 1887 - 200 pages
...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 portrait...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 - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1887 - 466 pages
...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 portrait...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 - Authors, English - 1887 - 652 pages
...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 portrait...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 McCosh - Conscience - 1887 - 294 pages
...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 portrait...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 - Authors, English - 1887 - 470 pages
...apprehended by several eyes and judgements, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certam notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus,...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... | |
 | Joseph Baldwin - Educational psychology - 1887 - 334 pages
...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 portrait...Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and... | |
 | George McKendree Steele - Psychology - 1889 - 286 pages
...apprehended by several eyes and description, judgments, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait...figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in a pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 570 pages
...and judgments, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof than tomake 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 seasonablo application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite... | |
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