 | Alphonse Mariette - 1863 - 400 стор.
...several eyes and judgments, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof 18 than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure 19 of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion *• 1 That was, qui fut — s " still (encore)... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 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... | |
 | 1865 - 496 стор.
...insects (11) on the banks of Nile, (12) 39. Clnmsy. | 40. Slightly informed ; plentiful. | 41. Immature. 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... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1867 - 426 стор.
...than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of t 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... | |
 | Wayne E. Burton - 1867 - 674 стор.
...apprehended by several eyes and j udgmcnts, 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... | |
 | Roses - 1867 - 172 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... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1868 - 562 стор.
...enumeration : the " pat allusion to a known story, the seasonable plication of a trivial saying; the playing in words and phrases, taking advantage from the ambiguity of .their sense, or the affinity of th sound. Sometimes it is wrapped in a dress of humorous expressio sometimes it lurks under an odd... | |
 | Treasury - 1868 - 148 стор.
...most wretched scraper alive, throws the audience into raptures. Goldsmith. . THE VARIOUS FORMS OF WIT. Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application to a trivial saying, or in forging an apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking... | |
 | 1869 - 588 стор.
...does describe the forms that it assumes with his usual fertility of thought and expression : — ' Sometimes it lieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saving, or in forging an apposite tale : sometimes it playeth in words and phrases, taking advantage... | |
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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... 
