 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1857 - 574 стор.
...seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Froteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes...apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in words and phraaes, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound : sometimes... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1857 - 516 стор.
...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,...air. Sometimes it lieth in PAT ALLUSION to a known itory, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale : sometimes... | |
 | 1857 - 850 стор.
...exemplified in the pages of our author. Of his wit, as of wit- in general, ¡t may be truly said, that " sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story,...application of a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite talc ; sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 стор.
...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... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 242 стор.
...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 - 1858 - 424 стор.
...portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of p fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in a pat allusion to u. known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial...saying, or in forging an apposite tale : sometimes it piayeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense or the affinity of... | |
 | Paul Hamilton Payne - 1858 - 584 стор.
...apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it seemeth no less hard to settle upon a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the floating air. Thus far, according to our author, the case would seem to be trulyhopeless, yet he concludes... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - 1859 - 584 стор.
...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,...ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of their sound b: sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expression : sometimes it lurketh under an odd similitude... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1859 - 444 стор.
...apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it seometh no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus,...in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or iu forging an apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the... | |
 | William Evans Burton - 1859 - 690 стор.
...apprehended by several eyes and j udgments, 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 fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of... | |
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It is indeed a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so many shapes, so many postures, so many 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... 
