 | 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,...his affects, his spirits, and his powers, In their can fluxions all to run one way, This may be truly said to be a humour.' There are undoubtedly persons,... | |
 | Henry Fielding, Arthur Murphy - 1806 - 484 pages
...of humours. Now thus far, ' It may, by metuphor, 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... | |
 | Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont - English drama - 1811 - 780 pages
...[far Unto the general disposition : As when some one peculiar quality Doth so possess a man, t! at it doth draw All his affects, his spirits, and his powers, In their coiilluxions, all to run one way, This may be truly said to be a humour.4 But that'a rook by wearing... | |
 | 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,...his affects, his spirits, and his powers In their constructions, all to run one way. Fine Feeling. As frisky John Perch, with his basket of fish, Prepar'd... | |
 | 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,...all to run one way, This may be truly said to be a humour.2 1 As 'tis ens, we thus define it,] Ens is a term of the schools, and signifies a substance,... | |
 | 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 to be a humour. But that a... | |
 | 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 to be a humour. But that a... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 216 pages
...unto the general disposition, as when some one peculiar quality does so possess a man , that it doeth draw all his affects , his spirits and his powers in their conductions , all to run one way. ' This definition arose from the natural philosophy of that time, by which man's disposition was supposed... | |
 | 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, that it doth draw All his effects, his spirits, and his powers, In their confluctions, all to run one way, This may be truly... | |
 | 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,...run one way, This may be truly said to be a humour. wealth, and abilities, and their opposites; and, in one word, good and bad fortune. 3. Charac- Now... | |
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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. 
