 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 стор.
...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 lifith in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of... | |
 | William Fleming - 1860 - 710 стор.
...contrary, in a particular and uncommon point of view." Dr. Barrow,' speaking of faeetiousness, says, "Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story,...saying, or in forging an apposite tale.' sometimes it playcth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense, or the affinity of... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1860 - 414 стор.
...than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of ? fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in a pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application...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... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1860 - 538 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 the flecting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusions to a known story, or in seasonable application of... | |
 | Alphonse Mariette - 1860 - 404 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 3 of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion 4 to a known story, or in seasonable application... | |
 | John Selby Watson - 1861 - 490 стор.
...indeed a thing so versatile and multiform, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus,...playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the * P. 41. J Memoirs of Kemble, vol. ip 67. f Kicld, Tracts, p. 317. ambiguity of their sense, or the... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1861 - 406 стор.
...Johnson's want of manners. In the course of his famous definition or description of wit, Barrow says : " Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense or... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1861 - 572 стор.
...allusion, and apropos. In the course of his famous definition or description of wit, Barrow says : " Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage fromffieambiguity of their sense or the... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1861 - 410 стор.
...Johnson's want of manners. In the course of his famous definition or description of wit, Barrow says : "Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story,...or in seasonable application of a trivial saying: sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of their sense or the... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 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... | |
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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... 
