 | John Dryden - 2023 - 586 lapas
...humours: So in every humane body The choller, melancholy, flegme, and bloud, By reason that they flow continually In some one part, and are not continent, Receive the name of Humours. Now thus farre It may, by Metaphore, apply it selfe Unto the general disposition: As when some one peculiar... | |
 | Roger Fowler - 1987 - 276 lapas
...(melancholic). These are used by Ben Jonson to construct an idea of character obsession. A bumour may 'so possess a man, that it doth draw / All his affects, his spirits and his power, 1n their confluctions, all to run one way' (Prologue to Every Man Out of His Humour, 1600).... | |
 | Michael J. Sidnell - 1991 - 332 lapas
...Humour14 ASPER: .., 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.15 Now thus far 1 ' The common Renaissance tenet that the time scheme of a play should not... | |
 | Scott Cutler Shershow - 1995 - 282 lapas
...were believed to be the causes of human personality and behavior, may, by Métaphore, apply it selfe Unto the general! disposition: As when some one peculiar quality Doth so possesse a man, that it doth draw All his affects, his spirits, and his powers, In their confluctions,... | |
 | Associació Internacional de Llengua i Literatura Catalanes - 1996 - 316 lapas
...261): «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,...Doth so possess a man, that it doth draw / All his effects, his spirits, and his powers, / In their confluctions, all to run one way, / This may be truly... | |
 | Lionel Kelly - 1995 - 399 lapas
...in every human body, The choler, melancholy, phlegm, and blood, By reason that thev flow continuallv In some one part, and are not continent, Receive the...quality Doth so possess a man, that it doth draw All his effects, his spirits, and his powers, In their confluctions, all to run one way, This may be truly... | |
 | Daniel Wickberg - 1998 - 292 lapas
...Humor: so in every humane bodie The choller, melancholy, flegme, and bloud, By reason that they flow continually In some one part, and are not continent, Receive the name of Humors. Now thus farre It may, by Métaphore, apply it selfe Unto the general disposition, As when... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1999 - 630 lapas
...the basic sense of the word 'by metaphor' to apply to 'the general disposition' of any individual: As when some one peculiar quality Doth so possess...it doth draw All his affects, his spirits, and his power, In their confluctions, all to run one way; This may be truly said to be a humour. (Induction,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2001 - 490 lapas
...Jonson : 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 humors. Now thus far It may, by metaphor, apply itself Unto the general disposition : As when some... | |
 | Gail Kern Paster - 2010 - 291 lapas
...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 Receive the name of humours. (induction, 88-91, 95-102) Here Jonson introduces humor in its largest sense — as the name for the... | |
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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, all to run one way, This may be truly said to be a humour. 
