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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,... "
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies ... - Page 390
by James Boswell - 1791 - 516 pages
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Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest-fields of Literature

Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1875 - 868 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 allusions to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in feigning an apposite...
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Literary curiosities and eccentricities, in prose and verse, ed. by W.A ...

Literary curiosities - 1876 - 334 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...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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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 pages
...garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it seemeth no less hard to settle Adventure not all thy learning in one bottom, but...note-books. He that with Bias carries all his learning allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite...
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Typical selections from the best English authors, with ..., Volume 1

English authors - 1876 - 484 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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Reminiscences and anecdotes of celebrated preachers

Thomas Jackson - 1876 - 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...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...
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The Pupil teacher, a monthly educational journal. H. Major, ed

Henry Major - 1876 - 784 pages
...garbs, so 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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Lectures on the English Poets and the English Comic Writers

William Hazlitt - 1876 - 474 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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Celebrities I Have Known: With Episodes, Political, Social ..., Volume 2

Lord William Pitt Lennox - 1877 - 378 pages
...apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and settled 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...
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Classical English Reader: Selections from Standard Authors. With Explanatory ...

Henry Norman Hudson - 1877 - 478 pages
...garbs, so variously approhended 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,6 or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known...
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The Elements of Rhetoric

James De Mille - 1878 - 584 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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