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" 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 172
1806
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Chamber's Cyclopædia of English Literature, Volume 1

Robert Chambers - 1902 - 868 pages
...its own excess. 'Humour' he thus defines for himself: In every human Ixxiy The choler, melancholy, D Wo Doth so possess a man that it doth drawAll his effects, his spirits, and his powers In their confluxions...
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The Works of Henry Fielding: With an Essay on His Life and Genius, Volume 5

Henry Fielding - 1903 - 514 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...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...
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The Complete Works of Henry Fielding, Esq: Miscellaneous writings

Henry Fielding, William Ernest Henley - 1903 - 366 pages
...phlegm and blood, By reason that they flow continually In some one part, and are not continent, Beceive the name of humours. Now thus far, ' It may, by metaphor,...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...
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The Complete Works of Henry Fielding, Esq: Miscellaneous writings

Henry Fielding, William Ernest Henley - 1903 - 356 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 In some one part, and are not continent, Beceive the name of humours. Now thua far, * It may, by metaphor, apply itself Unto the general disposition...
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A History of English Poetry, Volume 4

William John Courthope - 1903 - 642 pages
...representation of particular humours. What Jonson meant by " humour " he was afterwards at some pains to define. Now thus far It may, by metaphor, apply itself Unto the general disposition : As where some one peculiar quality Doth so possess a man, that it doth draw All his effects, his spirits,...
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Selected Essays of Henry Fielding

Henry Fielding - 1905 - 314 pages
...to contain itself, Is humour. So in every human body, The choler, melancholy, phlegm and blood, 15 By reason that they flow continually In some one part,...metaphor, apply itself ' Unto the general disposition : 20 ' As when some one peculiar quality ' Doth so possess a man, that it doth draw, ' All his effects,...
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Elizabethan Humours and the Comedy of Ben Jonson: Being the Book of the Play ...

Stanford University. English Club - 1905 - 82 pages
...man these were present in just the right proportions. "In every human body The choler, melancholy, phlegm, and blood By reason that they flow continually...and are not continent, Receive the name of humours." He then goes on to tell how from this circumstance the word gets a different meaning, and "when some...
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Ben Jonson's Dramen in Neudruck, Volume 1

Ben Jonson - 1905 - 584 pages
...containe it selfe, Is Humour : so in euery humane body 25o The choller, melancholy, flegme, and bloud, By reason that they flow continually In some one part, and are not continent, Receiue the name of Humours. Now thus farre It may, by Metaphore, apply it selfe 255 Vnto the generall...
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Ben Jonson's Every Man Out of His Humor

Ben Jonson, Willy Bang, Walter Wilson Greg - 1907 - 160 pages
...containe it selfe, Is Humor: so in euery humane bodie The choller, melancholy, flegme, and bloud, 215 By reason that they flow continually In some one part, and are not continent, Receiue the name of Humors. Now thus farre It may by Metaphore apply it selfe Vnto the generall disposition,...
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Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century ...

Joel Elias Spingarn - 1908 - 374 pages
...Induction of Every Man out of his Humour, after expounding the medical notion of a humour, says : ' 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,...
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