 | Thomas Otway - 1998 - 516 páginas
...with which definition succeeds definition in ihis epilogue. Cowley's first stan2a asserts of wit that 'A thousand different shapes it bears, | Comely in...shapes appears: | Yonder we saw it plain, and here 'tis now, | Like spirits, in a place, we know not how' (ll. 5-8). Lee's epilogue too proclaims wit's... | |
 | T. S. Eliot - 2006 - 300 páginas
...equally unsatisfactory nomenclature of our own time. Even Cowley is only able to define it by negatives: Comely in thousand shapes appears; Yonder we saw it plain; and here 'tis now, Like spirits in a place, we know not how.43 It has passed out of our critical coinage altogether,... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1905 - 484 páginas
...head of it, And whilst with wearied steps we upward go, See Us, and Clouds below. ODE. Of Wit. >. TEH me, O tell, what kind of thing is Wit, Thou who Master...shapes appears. Yonder we saw it plain ; and here 'tis now, Like Spirits in a Place, we know not How. 16 [2.] London that vents of false Ware so much... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1872 - 722 páginas
...attempted to define wit, and ended by describing and illustrating it Cowley says : — ' Tell me, oh tell, what kind of thing is wit, Thou who master art of it Î A thousand different shapes it bears, Comely in a thousand shapes appears. Yonder we see it plain... | |
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Women love't, either in Love or Dress. A thousand different shapes it bears, Comely in thousand shapes appears. Yonder we saw it plain ; and here 'tis now, Like Spirits in a Place, we know not How. 
