 The choler, melancholy, phlegm, and blood, By reason that they flow continually In some one part, and are not continent, Receive the name of humours. Now thus far It may, by metaphor, apply itself Unto the general disposition: As when some one peculiar...  Original memoranda,etc - Page 493by Robert Southey - 1850Full view - About this book
 | 1843 - 632 pages
...Johnson called humours. The words of Ben are so much to the purpose, that we will quote them : — ' When some one peculiar quality Doth so possess a man, that it doth draw All his affects, his spirits, and his powers, In their can fluxions all to run one way, This may be truly said... | |
 | Henry Fielding, Arthur Murphy - 1806 - 484 pages
...of humours. Now thus far, ' It may, by metuphor, apply itself ' Unto the general disposition ; ' As when some one peculiar quality ' Doth so possess a...his effects, his spirits, and his powers, ' In their confluxions all to run one way,' This may be truly said to be a humour. But that a rook by wearing... | |
 | 1806 - 440 pages
...may, by metaphor, apply itself Unto the general disposition: . As when some one peculiar quality Dpth so possess a man, that it doth draw All his effects, his spirits, and his powers In their confluxions oil to run one way, This may be truly saiil to be a humour. These three explica'irms may... | |
 | Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont - English drama - 1811 - 780 pages
...possess a man, t! at it doth draw All his affects, his spirits, and his powers, In their coiilluxions, all to run one way, This may be truly said to be a humour.4 But that'a rook by wearing a py'd feather, The cable hatband, or the thrte-pil'd ruff, A yard... | |
 | Akeroyde's padd (Dance) - 1812 - 352 pages
...name of humorous. Now thus far It may', by metaphor, apply itself Unto the general disposition : As when some one peculiar quality Doth so possess a man, that it doth draw All his affects, his spirits, and his powers In their constructions, all to run one way. Fine Feeling. As frisky... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - Dramatists, English - 1816 - 570 pages
...the name of humours. Now thus far It may, by metaphor, apply itself Unto the general disposition : As when some one peculiar quality Doth so possess a man, that it doth draw All his affects, his spirits, and his powers, In their conductions, all to run one way, This may be truly said... | |
 | Johann Gottfried Herder - Aesthetics - 1817 - 464 pages
...OTeinung, eine ®e> banfeneen>ol)nHit. ®<» hmnour tefd)teibt Ben. Johnion alfo: At when »оюе one peculiar quality Doth so possess a man, that it doth draw All his affects, his spirits and his pow'rs In their constructions, all to run one way This may be truly said... | |
 | Johann Gottfried Herder - Aesthetics - 1820 - 968 pages
...eine eingebil: bete SKecnung, eine ©cbanfengeTOobnbeit. 25en humour befdjreibt Ben. Johnson alfo : As when some one peculiar quality Doth so possess a man, that it doth draw All his affects his spirits and his pow'rs In their constructions, all to run one way This may be truly said... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 216 pages
...disposition, as when some one peculiar quality does so possess a man , that it doeth draw all his affects , his spirits and his powers in their conductions , all to run one way. ' This definition arose from the natural philosophy of that time, by which man's disposition was supposed... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...the name of humours. Now thus far It may, by metaphor, apply itself Unto the general disposition: As when some one peculiar quality Doth so possess a man,...his effects, his spirits, and his powers, In their confluctions, all to run one way, This may be truly said to be a humour. But that a rook, by wearing... | |
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