 | Charles Whibley - 1913 - 326 páginas
...a picture (real or personal),' said he, 'quaintly drawn, in various colours, all of them heightened by one shadowing. It is a quick and soft touch of many springs, all shutting up in one musical close : it is wit's descant on any plain song.' Thus he lets... | |
 | Modern Language Association of America - 1915 - 1054 páginas
...level, it is a picture (real or personal) quaintly drawn in various colors, 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." The immediate source of the English " character... | |
 | Gwendolen Murphy - 1925 - 500 páginas
...taken for an Egyptian Hieroglyphicke, for an imprese, or short Embleme; in little comprehending much. 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 cloze : It is wits descant on... | |
 | Gwendolen Murphy - 1925 - 496 páginas
...taken for an ./Egyptian Hieroglyphicke, for an imprese, or short Embleme; in little comprehending much. 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 cloze : It is wits descant on... | |
 | Phyllis M. Bishop - 1925 - 200 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. A PROUD MAN [From the same.] Is one in whom... | |
 | Gwendolen Murphy - 1925 - 496 páginas
...picture INTRODUCTION VII (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.' But the ' wit ' that Overbury commends was... | |
 | Thomas Fuller - 1928 - 236 páginas
...reflected in the foregoing subtitles. ' To square out a character by our English levell', wrote Overbury, ' it is a picture (reall or personall) quaintly drawne, in various colours, all of them heightened by one shadowing. It is a quicke and soft touch of many strings, all shutting up in one... | |
 | Muriel Clara Bradbrook - 1989 - 238 páginas
...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 plainsong. This has about as much resemblance to Theophrastus... | |
 | Jules Brody - 1991 - 246 páginas
...character [...] is a picture (real or personal) quaintly drawn, in varions colours, ail of them heightened by one shadowing. It is a quick and soft touch of many strings, ail shutting up in one musical close: it is wit's descant on any plain song.9 Cette autre conclusion... | |
 | J. Hillis Miller - 1995 - 308 páginas
...level, it is a picture (real or personal) quaintly drawn, in various colors, 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. — Sir Thomas Overbury His Wife It is in modern... | |
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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... 
