 | Philip Sidney - 1724 - 270 pages
...done, fb as he coupleth the general notion with the particular example. A perfect picture (I fay.) for he yieldeth to the powers of the mind an image of that whereof the philofopher beftoweth but a wordifh defcription, which doth, neither ftrike, pierce, nor poflefs the... | |
 | Sir Philip Sidney - Poetry - 1787 - 158 pages
...was done, fo as he conpleth the general notion with the particular example. A perfect picture (I fay) for he yieldeth to the powers of the mind an image of that whereof the philofopher beftoweth but a wordim defcription, which doth neither ftrike, pierce, nor poflefs the... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 616 pages
...it was done, so as he coupleth the general notion with the particular example : ' a perfect picture' (I say) for he yieldeth to the powers of the mind...elephant or a rhinoceros, who should tell him most exquisitively all their shape, colour, bigness, and particular marks? or of a gorgeous palace, an architect,... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 624 pages
...it was done, so as he coupleth the general notion with the particular example : ' a perfect picture' (I say) for he yieldeth to the powers of the mind...elephant or a rhinoceros, who should tell him most exquisitively all their shape, colour, bigness, and particular marks? or of a gorgeous palace, an architect,... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - English literature - 1824 - 378 pages
...it was done ; so as he coupleth the general notion with the particular example. A perfect picture, I say, — for he yieldeth to the powers of the mind...the sight of the soul, so much as that other doth." — " So, no doubt, the philosopher with his learned definitions, be it of virtues or vices, matters... | |
 | Books - 1824 - 378 pages
...it was done ; so as he coupleth the general notion with the particular example. A perfect picture, I say, — for he yieldeth to the powers of the mind...the sight of the soul, so much as that other doth." — " So, no doubt, the philosopher with his learned definitions, be it of virtues or vices, matters... | |
 | Books - 1824 - 378 pages
...presupposeth it was done; so as he coupleth the general notion with the particular example. A perfect picture, I say, — for he yieldeth to the powers of the mind...the sight of the soul, so much as that other doth." — " So, no doubt, the philosopher with his learned definitions, be it of virtues or vices, matters... | |
 | Literature - 1826 - 450 pages
...ingenious, in proof he coupleth the general notion with the particular example. A perfect picture, I say —for he yieldeth to the powers of the mind an image of that whereof the philosopher hestoweth hut a wordish description, which doth neither strike, pierce, nor possess the sight of the... | |
 | 1830 - 540 pages
...presupposeth it was done, so as he coupleth the general notion with the particular example. A perfect picture, I say ; for he yieldeth to the powers of the mind...things, to a man that had never seen an elephant, or a'rhinoceros, who should tell him most exquisitely all their shape, colour, bigness-, and particular... | |
 | 1830 - 550 pages
...it was done, so as he coupleth the general notion with the particular example. A perfect picture, 1 say ; for he yieldeth to the powers of the mind an...other doth. For as, in outward things, to a man' that hfld never seen an elephant, or a rhinoceros, who should tell him most exquisitely all their; shape,... | |
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I say, for he yieldeth to the powers of the mind an image of that whereof the philosopher bestoweth but a wordish description: which doth neither strike, pierce, nor possess the sight of the soul so much as that other doth. 
