 Tis that which we all see and know : any one better apprehends what it is by acquaintance than I can inform him by description. It is indeed a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs, so variously...  new monthly magazine - Page 451by william harrison ainsworth - 1857Full view - About this book
 | Wayne E. Burton - Wit and humor - 1867 - 674 pages
...entire. — " It may be demanded what the thing we speak of is, or what this facetiousness doth import. It is indeed a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing...garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and j udgmcnts, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...we all see and know." Any one better apprehends what it is by acquaintance, " then " I can inform mm by description. It is indeed a thing so versatile...so many garbs, so variously apprehended by several* (different) eyes and judgments, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof,... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - English literature - 1869 - 420 pages
...which we all see and know : any one better apprehends what it is by acquaintance than I can inform him by description. It is indeed a thing so versatile...variously apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that itseemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus,... | |
 | English literature - 1869 - 584 pages
...the usefulness of a little well-timed jocosity. He cannot, he admits, define wit; it would be as easy 'to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air ;' but he does describe the forms that it assumes with his usual fertility of thought and expression... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - English literature - 1850 - 492 pages
...which we all see and know : any one better apprehends what it is by acquaintance than I can inform him by description. It is indeed a thing so versatile...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... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1871 - 770 pages
...acquaintance, than I can inform him by description ; it is indeed a thing so versatile and multiform, appealing in so many shapes, so many postures, so many garbs,...seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notice thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes... | |
 | English periodicals - 1871 - 780 pages
...apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notice thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to...define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it Jieth in pat allusion to a known story, or in seasonable application of a trivial saying, or in forging... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1872 - 786 pages
...which \ve all see and know : any one better apprehends what it is by acquaintance than I can inform him by description. It is indeed a thing so versatile...that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and renain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure of a fleeting air.... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - Literary curiosa - 1874 - 876 pages
...eminent divine, it occupies a very considerable portion of the realm of wit. He says, " Wit is a thing BO versatile and multiform, appearing in so many shapes,...apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it scemcth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 584 pages
...apprehends what it is by acquaintance, that I can inform him by description. It is, indeed, a thin;; so versatile and multiform, appearing in so many shapes,...garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgements, that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make... | |
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