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
 | Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange - English wit and humor - 1878 - 380 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... | |
 | Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange - English wit and humor - 1878 - 378 pages
...Moisture and fluxuro .... 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 684 pages
...what Ben Jonson called humors. 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... | |
 | Samuel Rowlands - 1880 - 586 pages
...be When fome peculiar quality Doth fo pofiefs a man, that it doth draw All his affects, his fpirits, and his powers, In their conductions, all to run one way ; This may be truly faid to be a HUMOUR. But that a rook, by wearing a pyed feather, The cable hat-band, or the three-piled... | |
 | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - 1881 - 1020 pages
...fen yjli$bta\ià}, aid ben eigentlichen @inn beffetben, bemerft er in fûEgenber ¿telle felbfl : As when some one peculiar quality Doth so possess a Man, that it doth draw All bis affects, his spirits, and his powers, In their constructions, all to run one way, This may be truly... | |
 | David Masson - English literature - 1881 - 876 pages
...possess a man that it doth draw All his effects, his spirits, and his powers In their confluctions all to run one way, This may be truly said to be a humour." Adhering to the word as thus explained, he had asserted that all plays, and especially comedies, ought... | |
 | David Masson - Great Britain - 1881 - 874 pages
...possess a man that it doth draw All his effects, his spirits, and his powers In their confluctions all to run one way, This may be truly said to be a humour." Adhering to the word as thus explained, he had asserted that all plays, and especially comedies, ought... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1882 - 518 pages
...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... | |
 | Henry Fielding, Leslie Stephen - 1882 - 458 pages
...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... | |
 | Medico-Legal Society, Medico-Legal Society of New York - Insanity (Law) - 1886 - 628 pages
...are in contemplation of law, altogether innocuous. We all know of numerous cases in which , * * * * "Some one peculiar quality " Doth so possess a man,...his effects, his spirits and his powers, " In their confluxions all to run one way." As a great English critic says, quoting the passage from Ben Johnson,... | |
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