 So in every human body, 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:...  La Belle Assemblée - Page 1721806Full view - About this book
 | Ben Jonson - Comedies of humours - 1921 - 572 pages
...particular humors. Cf . Every Man Out, Ind.. p. 16 : So in every human body. The choler, melancholy, phlegm, and blood. By reason that they flow continually...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,... | |
 | Ben Jonson - English language - 1921 - 576 pages
...particular humors. Cf . Every Man Out, Ind., p. 16 : So in every human body, The choler, melancholy, phlegm, and blood, By reason that they flow continually...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,... | |
 | George Harley McKnight - English language - 1923 - 474 pages
...terms appear in the following lines of Ben Jonson : 10 In every human body The choler, melancholy, phlegm and blood, By reason that they flow continually...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 his conductions,... | |
 | Science - 1915 - 740 pages
...humidity, As wanting power to contain itself, Is humour. So in every human body, the choler, melancholy, phlegm, and blood, By reason that they flow continually In some one part, and are not continent, Beceive the name of Humours. Now thus far It may, by metaphor, apply itself Unto the general disposition:... | |
 | Ernest Weekley - Reference - 1967 - 452 pages
...It, i. z); and Addison uses humorist ior iaddist. In ecery human body The choler, melancholy, pЫagm and blood, By reason that they flow continually In...one part, and are not continent, Receive the name oi humours. Now thus iar It may, by metaphor, apply itseli Unto the general disposition; As when some... | |
 | John Dryden - Literary Criticism - 2023 - 586 pages
...it. . . ." to the bodily humours: So in every humane body The choller, melancholy, flegme, and bloud, By reason that they flow continually In some one part,...not continent, Receive the name of Humours. Now thus farre It may, by Metaphore, apply it selfe Unto the general disposition: As when some one peculiar... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 304 pages
...humidity, As wanting power to contain itself, Is humour. So in every human body The choler, melancholy, phlegm and blood, By reason that they flow continually...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,... | |
 | Harry Levin - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 225 pages
...interlocutors into a psychophysical description of humor, which he thereupon brings into the playhouse: 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,... | |
 | Michael J. Sidnell - Drama - 1991 - 332 pages
...the Induction to Every Man out of his Humour14 ASPER: .., in every human body The choler, melancholy, phlegm and blood By reason that they flow continually...one part, and are not continent, Receive the name of humours.15 Now thus far 1 ' The common Renaissance tenet that the time scheme of a play should not... | |
 | Andrew Calder - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 257 pages
...humidity. As wanting power to contain itself, Is humour. So in every human body, The choler, melancholy, phlegm, and blood, By reason that they flow continually...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 confluxions,... | |
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