 | Sydney Smith - 1854 - 472 pages
...— so 'variously apprehended by several eyes and judg' ments, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear ' and certain notion thereof than to make...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 - 1854 - 980 pages
...apprehended by sereral eyes and ju-.mciits, that it seciutth no less hud t~> scale a deal and ccru.a notice thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of fleeting air. Sometimes it Jieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 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 a pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 428 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 a pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1856 - 1048 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." The doctor then proceeds to describe it, and concludes by saying, that " often it... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 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 Hamilton - 1857 - 494 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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1857 - 516 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 itory, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite... | |
 | william harrison ainsworth - 1857 - 516 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 Hamilton - 1857 - 532 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... | |
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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,... 
