 | Anna Maria Hall - 842 pages
...garbs, so variously apprehended by several cjcs and judgments, that it seemcth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, cr to define the figure of a fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or... | |
 | 1846 - 436 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 lictli in apt allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 410 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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - 290 pages
...apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it seemeth no less hard to setUe 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*a... | |
 | 1846 - 586 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 I'rotous. or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in apt allusion to a known... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1849 - 446 pages
...apprehended by several eyes and judgments, " that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and cer" tain 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 story, or in season" able application of a trivial saying,... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1850 - 428 pages
...— 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...Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometime it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying,... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1850 - 420 pages
...— 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...Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometime it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1851 - 322 pages
...garbs, so 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...define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lielh in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging... | |
 | Rev. Sidney Smith - 1854 - 296 pages
...— 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... | |
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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,... 
