 | 1846 - عدد الصفحات: 586
...the veil of custom and the scnsas— these are alive all around us.— The Token. WIT. Wit Is indeed a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so...certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of I'rotous. or to define the figure of the fleeting air. Sometimes it lieth in apt allusion to a known... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - عدد الصفحات: 416
...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...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 fleeting air. Sometimes... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - عدد الصفحات: 282
...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...seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notice thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or lo define the figure of fleeting air. Sometimes... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1846 - عدد الصفحات: 290
...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...eyes and judgments, that it seemeth no less hard to setUe a clear and certain notice thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus, or to define the figure... | |
 | 1846 - عدد الصفحات: 436
...sens«s — theie are alive all around us. — The Token. HOGG'S WEEKLY INSTRUCTOR. WIT. Wit is indeed a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so many shapes, so many postures, BO many garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it seemeth no less hard... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1849 - عدد الصفحات: 446
...so subtle, so " versatile, and so multiform, — appearing in so many "shapes, so many postures, and so many garbs, — so " variously apprehended by several...that it seemeth no less hard to settle a clear and cer" tain notion thereof than to make a portrait of Proteus, " or to define the figure of the fleeting... | |
 | James Boswell - 1851 - عدد الصفحات: 322
...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...apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it seemed no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - عدد الصفحات: 796
...ono 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...apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it seerneth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus,... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - عدد الصفحات: 424
...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...apprehended by several eyes and judgments, that it seemcth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make a portrait of Proteus,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1857 - عدد الصفحات: 520
...any one better apprehends what it is by acquaintance, than I can inform by description. It is indeed a thing so versatile and multiform, appearing in so...garbs, so variously apprehended by several eyes and jndgments, that it secmeth no less hard to settle a clear and certain notion thereof, than to make... | |
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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... 
