 | James Boswell - 1831 - 592 pages
...eyes and judgments, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, thnn to 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 456 pages
...garbs, so 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...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 - 1835 - 590 pages
...garbs, so variously apprehended by-several eyes and judgments, that it seemeth no leas hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or. to deinn' the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it In-ill in pat allusion to a known story, or\in... | |
 | William Evans Burton, Edgar Allan Poe - 1838 - 448 pages
...garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it seemelh no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a...figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pal allusion» to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in feigning an... | |
 | 1838 - 448 pages
...garbs, so 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...define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it Moth in pat allitrion* to a known story, or in seasonable application rf a trivial saying, or in feigning... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 pages
...garbs, so 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 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1843 - 588 pages
...garbs, so 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 of Proteus, or to define i in- figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it In-ill in uiit allusion to a known story, or in seasonable... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 pages
...so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it seemeth no less (95) hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a...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 - 1845 - 692 pages
...garbs, so 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...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 242 pages
...apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it 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 it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of... | |
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... 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,... 
