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" 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 493
by Robert Southey - 1850
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A History of English Dramatic Literature to the Death of Queen Anne, Volume 1

Sir Adolphus William Ward - English drama - 1875 - 666 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 confluxions, all to run one way, This may be truly said to be a humour. But that a rook, by wearing...
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A History of English Dramatic Literature to the Death of Queen Anne, Volume 1

Sir Adolphus William Ward - English drama - 1875 - 658 pages
...name of humours. Now thus far It may, by metaphor, apply itself Unto the general disposition: Asfwhen some one peculiar quality Doth so possess a man, that...it doth draw All his effects, his spirits, and his poweis, In their confluxions, all to run one way,! This may be truly said to be a humouij But that...
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Works, with Notes Critical and Explanatory and a Biographical Memoir

Ben Jonson - 1875 - 594 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 confluctions, all to run one way, This may^b&Jruly said...
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Old sports and sportsmen; or, The Willey country

John Randall - 1875 - 274 pages
...possess a man that it doth draw All his effects, his spirits, and his powers, In their confluction all to run one way, This may be truly said to be a humour." Such a humour the old Squire had. Towards the last he found that some of his mistresses gave him a...
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A History of English Dramatic Literature to the Death of Queen Anne, Volume 1

Sir Adolphus William Ward - English drama - 1875 - 664 pages
...possess a man, that it doth draw All 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 a pyed feather, The cable hat-band, or the three-piled ruff, A yard of...
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Curiousities of Wills

John Proffatt - 1876 - 226 pages
...of the most singularly gifted and acute minds of the world. We all know of numerous cases in which " Some one peculiar quality Doth so possess a man, that...All his effects, his spirits and his powers In their confluxions all to run one way." Hence we must distinguish between mere eccentricity and monomania....
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The Curiosities and Law of Wills

John Proffatt - Wills - 1876 - 226 pages
...of the most singularly gifted and acute minds of the world. We all know of numerous cases in which " Some one peculiar quality Doth so possess a man, that it doth draw All his effects, his spirits and hls powers In their conflusions all to run one way." Hence we must distinguish between mere eccentricity...
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Lessing's Hamburgische Dramaturgie, Volume 1

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - Drama - 1877 - 788 pages
...biefen Щ?!рга11ф ale ben eigentlichen čiiin bcffelbcn bemerft er in folgenber Štelle fclbfi: 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, This may be truly...
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History of English Literature, Volume 2

Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1877 - 472 pages
...grac'd monsters, may like men." 2 Men, as we see them in the streets, with their whims and humours — " When some one peculiar quality Doth so possess a man, that it doth draw All his affects, his spirits, and his powers In their confluctions, all to run one way, This may be truly said...
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History of English humour, with an intr. upon ancient humour, Volume 1

Alfred Guy K. L'Estrange - 1878 - 384 pages
...Moisture and fluxure .... 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 power." The social peculiarities of the day are frequently alluded to...
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