 So in every human body, The choler, melancholy, phlegm, and blood, By reason that they flow continually In some one part, and are not continent, Receive the name of humours. Now thus far It may, by metaphor, apply itself Unto the general disposition:...  La Belle Assemblée - Page 1721806Full view - About this book
 | Ben Jonson - 1756 - 526 pages
...human body, The choler, melancholy, phlegm, and blood, By reafon that they flow continually In fome one part, and are not continent, Receive the name...of humours. Now thus far It may, by metaphor, apply itfelf Unto the general difpofition : As when fome one peculiar quality Doth fo poflcfs a Man, that... | |
 | Henry Fielding, Arthur Murphy - 1806 - 484 pages
...humidity, As wanting power to contain itself, Is humour. So in every human body, The choler, melancholy, phlegm and blood, By reason that they flow continually...Receive the name of humours. Now thus far, ' It may, by metuphor, apply itself ' Unto the general disposition ; ' As when some one peculiar quality ' Doth... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1811 - 790 pages
...power to contain itself, Is humour. So in every human body, Tuecholer, melancholy, phlegm, andblood, By reason that they flow continually In some one part, and are not continent, Beceive the name of humours. Now thus It may, by metaphor, apply itself [far Unto the general disposition... | |
 | 1812 - 352 pages
...That whatsoe'er hatb fluxure and humidity, Is HUMOH. So in every human body, The choler, melancholy, phlegm, and blood, By reason that they flow continually...one part, and are not continent, Receive the name of humorous. Now thus far It may', by metaphor, apply itself Unto the general disposition : As when some... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 568 pages
...humidity, As wanting power to contain itself, Is humour. So in erery human body, The choler, melanclioly, phlegm, and blood, By reason that they flow continually...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,... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 568 pages
...humour. So in every human body, The choler, melancholy, phlegm, and blood, By reason that theyjftow continually In some one part, and are not continent,...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,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 216 pages
...defines it 'whatsoe'er has fluxure and humidity. As wanting power to contain itself. By metaphor it may apply itself 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... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pages
...humidity, As wanting power to contain itself, Is humour. So in every human body, The choler, melancholy, phlegm, and blood, By reason that they flow continually...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,... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 358 pages
...to contain itself, By reason that they flow continually The choler, melancholy, phlegm, and blood, In some one part, and are not continent, Receive the...metaphor, apply itself Unto the general disposition: Doth so possess a man, that it doth draw As when some one peculiar quality All his effects, his spirits,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1836 - 446 pages
...pathology, and excellently described by Ben Jonson : So in every human body, The choler, melancholy, phlegm, and blood, By reason that they flow continually...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,... | |
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