 ... 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
 | 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 584 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... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - Literary curiosa - 1874 - 876 pages
...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 portrait...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - Anthologies - 1875 - 868 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 allusions to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in feigning an... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - Authors, English - 1876 - 870 pages
...variously apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear e not all thy learning in one bottom, but divide it...note-books. He that with Bias carries all his learn pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite... | |
 | Literary curiosities - 1876 - 334 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Thomas Jackson - 1876 - 428 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 pert allusions to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an... | |
 | English authors - 1876 - 484 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... | |
 | Henry Major - 1876 - 784 pages
...variously apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it geemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of floating air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusions to a known story, or in seasonable application of... | |
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