 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.  Critical and Miscellaneous Essays - Page 69by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1844Full view - About this book
 | 1843 - 632 pages
...of this class, and those poets and novelists whose skill lies in the exhibiting of what Ben Johnson called humours. The words of Ben are so much to the...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... | |
 | English literature - 1843 - 630 pages
...novelists whose skill lies in the exhibiting of what Ben Johnson called humours. The words of Ben are ao much to the purpose, that we will quote them : —...quality Doth so possess a man, that it doth draw All his affects, his spirits, and his powers, In their confluxions 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
...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
...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,...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... | |
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