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" To square out a character by our English levell, it is a picture (reall or personall) quaintly drawne, in various colours, all of them heightned by one shadowing. It is a quicke and soft touch of many strings, all shutting up in one musicall close : it... "
Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts - Página 228
por Colonial Society of Massachusetts - 1913
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Famous Books; Sketches in the Highways and Byeways of English Literature

William Davenport Adams - 1881 - 404 páginas
...for an impresse, or short embleme ; in little comprehending much. " To square out a character by an English levell, it is a picture (reall or personall)...all of them heightned by one shadowing. " It is a quicke and soft touch of many strings, all shutting up in one musicall close : it is wits descant on...
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The Bookmart: A Monthly Magazine of Literary and Library ..., Volumen8

Halkett Lord - 1890 - 302 páginas
...that, however well, he spoke not wisely. We accept two of his definitions of what a character is : " To square out a character by our English levell, it...all of them heightned by one shadowing." " It is a quicke and soft touch of many strings, all shutting up in one musicall close : it is wits descant on...
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Treasury of Thought: Forming an Encyclopædia of Quotations from Ancient and ...

Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 páginas
...intelligence. That which is truly and indeed characteristic of the man is known only to God. Raskin. It is a quick and soft touch of many strings, all shutting up in one musical close ; it is wit's descant on any plain song. — Sir T. Overbury. We are sometimes as different...
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Pamphlets in Philology and the Humanities, Volumen13

1893 - 796 páginas
...level, it is a picture (real or personal) quaintly drawn in various colours, all of them heightened by one shadowing. It is a quick and soft touch of many strings, all shutting up in one musical close ; it is wit's descant on any plain song." Though the character-sketch showed a constant...
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A History of Story-telling, Studies in the Development of Narrative

Arthur Ransome - 1909 - 402 páginas
...Sir Thomas Overbury, trying to define the art he used so skilfully, said, in his clear way : — ' To square out a character by our English levell, it...colours, all of them heightned by one shadowing. It is a quicke and soft touch of many strings, all shutting up in one musicall close : it is wit's descant...
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A History of Story-telling: Studies in the Development of Narrative

Arthur Ransome - 1909 - 506 páginas
...Sir Thomas Overbury, trying to define the art he used so skilfully, said, in his clear way : — ' To square out a character by our English levell, it...colours, all of them heightned by one shadowing. It is a quicke and soft touch of many strings, all shutting up in one musicall close : it is wit's descant...
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Shakespeare's Comedies

William Shakespeare - 1909 - 406 páginas
...target. Sir Thomas Overbury, trying to define the art he used so skilfully, said, in his clear way: — 'To square out a character by our English levell,...colours, all of them heightned by one shadowing. It is a quicke and soft touch of many strings, all shutting up in one musicall close : it is wit's descant...
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Poet Lore, Volumen23

1912 - 508 páginas
...in the following apt and beautiful terms, defined the type of literature of which he was a master: 'To square out a character by our English levell,...personall) quaintly drawne, in various colours, all of them hightned by one shadowing. It is a quicke and soft touch of many strings, all shutting up in one musicall...
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English Literature and the Classics: Tragedy

George Stuart Gordon - 1912 - 260 páginas
...in the collection of Overbury. ' To square out a Character by our English levell,' says the writer, it is a picture (reall or personall) quaintly drawne,...colours, all of them heightned by one shadowing. It is a quicke and soft touch of many strings, all shutting up in one musicall cloze : It is wits descant on...
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Transactions of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts

Colonial Society of Massachusetts - 1913 - 568 páginas
.../ As Also / New Newes, and diuers more Characters, / (neuer before annexed) written by him- / selfe To square out a character by our English levell it is a picture (reail or personal!) quaintly drawne, in various colours, all of them heightned by one shadowing. It...
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