 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 be truly said to be a humour.  Selected Essays of Henry Fielding - Page 114by Henry Fielding - 1905 - 222 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1843 - 632 pages
...Johnson 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 can fluxions all to run one way, This may be truly said... | |
 | 1806 - 446 pages
...may, by metaphor, apply itself Unto the general disposition: . As when some one peculiar quality Dpth so possess a man, that it doth draw All his effects, his spirits, and his powers In their confluxions oil to run one way, This may be truly saiil to be a humour. These three explica'irms may serve to form... | |
 | Akeroyde's padd (Dance) - 1812 - 352 pages
...the name of humorous. 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 constructions, all to run one way. Fine Feeling. As frisky... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - Dramatists, English - 1816 - 568 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 conductions, all to run one way, This may be truly said... | |
 | Johann Gottfried Herder - Aesthetics - 1817 - 464 pages
...OTeinung, eine ®e> banfeneen>ol)nHit. ®<» hmnour tefd)teibt Ben. Johnion alfo: At when »оюе one peculiar quality Doth so possess a man, that it doth draw All his affects, his spirits and his pow'rs In their constructions, all to run one way This may be truly said... | |
 | Johann Gottfried Herder - Aesthetics - 1820 - 968 pages
...eine eingebil: bete SKecnung, eine ©cbanfengeTOobnbeit. 25en humour befdjreibt Ben. Johnson alfo : As when some one peculiar quality Doth so possess a man, that it doth draw All his affects his spirits and his pow'rs In their constructions, all to run one way This may be truly said... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...Receive 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...his effects, his spirits, and his powers, In their confluctions, all to run one way, This may be truly said to be a humour. But that a rook, by wearing... | |
 | Aristoteles - 1833 - 450 pages
...in which it has been defined by Ben Jonson, comes nearer to i/0of than any word in our language :— When some one peculiar quality Doth so possess a man, that it doth draw All his affects, his spirits, and his powers, In their conductions, all to run one way, This may be truly said... | |
 | Aristotle, Thomas Hobbes - Rhetoric - 1833 - 488 pages
...which it has been defined by Ben Jonson, comes nearer to ijQof than any word in our language : — When some one peculiar quality Doth so possess a man, that it doth draw AH his affects, his spirits, and his powers, In their confluctions, all to run one way, This may be... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Literature - 1836 - 424 pages
...the name of humours. Now thui far It may, by metaphor, apply itself Unto the general disposition : As when some one peculiar quality Doth so possess...his effects, his spirits, and his powers, In their confluctions, all to run one way, This may be truly said to be a humour.* Hence we may explain the... | |
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