 | William Shakespeare - 1890 - 478 pagina’s
...define it; from 'humour "the meaning maybe presumably extended to ' humorous." Asper says to Mitis, ' When some one peculiar quality Doth so possess a man,...his affects, his spirits, and his powers, In their conductions, all to run one way, This may be truly said to be a humour." Such a dominant trait, then,... | |
 | 1871 - 884 pagina’s
...thoughts and to which all else must yield ; we may call it a humor precisely in Ben Jonson's sense : " When some one peculiar quality Doth so possess a man that it doth draw AH his effects, his spirits, and his powers In their confluxions, all to run one way. This may be truly... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1873 - 1054 pagina’s
...discriminated from each other as if they were the most eccentric of human beings. There are, for instance, four clergymen, none of whom, we should be surprised...confluxions all to run one way, This may be truly snid to be a humour." There are undoubtedly persons, in whom humours such as Ben describes have attained... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1873 - 470 pagina’s
...grac'd monsters, may like men." 'Men, as we see them in the streets, with their whims and humours — " When some one peculiar quality Doth so possess a man,...his affects, his spirits, and his powers In their confluctions, all to run one way, This may be truly said to be a humour." 3 It is these humours which... | |
 | John Randall - 1873 - 256 pagina’s
...which were dotted over the estate at no great distance from the Hall. As rare Ben Jonson has it : — " When some one peculiar quality Doth so possess a man that it doth draw All his effects, his spirits, and his powers, In their confluction all to run one way, This may he truly said... | |
 | William Minto - 1874 - 506 pagina’s
...conclusion is, that the term 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 effects, his spirits, and his powers, In their conductions all to run one way, This may be truly said... | |
 | William Minto - 1874 - 508 pagina’s
...conclusion is, that the term may, by metaphor, apply itself— " Unto the general disposit1on ; As when some one peculiar quality Doth so possess a man that it doth draw All his effects, his sp1rits, and h1s powers. In their conductions all to run one way, This may be truly said... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1875 - 594 pagina’s
...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 affects, his spirits, and his powers, In their confluctions, all to run one way, This may^b&Jruly said to be a humour? 1 As 'tis ens, we thus define... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward - 1875 - 664 pagina’s
...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 effects, his spirits, and his powers. In their confluxions, all to run one way, This may be truly said... | |
 | David Masson - 1875 - 698 pagina’s
...the name of humors. Now, thus fur 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 effects, his spirits and his powers In their connections all to run one way, This may be truly said... | |
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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. 
