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
 | Hippolyte Taine - Literary Criticism - 1871 - 554 pages
...possess a man, that it doth draw All his affects, his spirits, and his powers In their confluxions, all to run one way, This may be truly said to be a humour. ' * It is these humours which he exposes to the light, not with the artist's curiosity, but with the... | |
 | John Randall - Hunting - 1873 - 256 pages
...which were dotted over the estate at no great distance from the Hall. As rare Ben Jonson has it : — " When some one peculiar quality Doth so possess a man...his effects, his spirits, and his powers, In their confluction all to run one way, This may he truly said to be a humour." Such a humour the old Squire... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1873 - 718 pages
...Ben Jonson 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 confluxions all to run one way, This may be truly said... | |
 | Georg Gottfried Gervinus - German literature - 1873 - 694 pages
...possess a man, that it doth draw all his affects, his spirits and his powers, in their constructions all to run one way, this may be truly said to be a homour. @фа1е legte. Ueberoll in ben neuen Sägern felbft seigren |id) bie geinbe biefer ®еп1е(сифе,... | |
 | William Minto - English poetry - 1874 - 506 pages
...conclusion is, that the term may, by metaphor, apply itself— " Unto the general disposition ; As when some one peculiar quality Doth so possess a man...run one way, This may be truly said to be a humour." humours," and thereafter, in the flame and height of them, be suddenly laid flat. Macilente, Carlo... | |
 | William Minto - 1874 - 520 pages
...conclusion is, that the term may, by metaphor, apply itself— " Unto the general disposition ; As when some one peculiar quality Doth so possess a man...run one way. This may be truly said to be a humour." humours," and thereafter, in the flame and height of them, be suddenly laid flat. Macilente, Carlo... | |
 | William Minto - English poetry - 1874 - 508 pages
...conclusion is, that the term may, by metaphor, apply itself— " Unto the general disposit1on ; As when some one peculiar quality Doth so possess a man that it doth draw All his effects, his sp1rits, and h1s powers. In their conductions all to run one way, This may be truly said to be a humour."... | |
 | David Masson - 1875 - 704 pages
...the name of humors. Now, thus far It may, by metaphor, apply itself Unto the general disposition; As, when some one peculiar quality Doth so possess a man...conductions all to run one way, This may be truly said to bo a humor." Adhering to the word as thus explained, he had asserted that all plays, and especially... | |
 | David Masson - 1875 - 698 pages
...the name of humors. Now, thus fur It may, by metaphor, apply itself Unto the general disposition; As, when some one peculiar quality Doth so possess a man...All his effects, his spirits and his powers In their connections all to run one way, This may be truly said to be a humor." Adhering to the word as thus... | |
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