 | Gerd-Günther Grau - 2004 - 190 lapas
...Dramatiker, Zeitgenossen Shakespeares, Ben Jonson: „As when some peculiar quality doth so posess a Man, that it doth draw all his affects, his spirits and his power in their construction, all to run one way, this may be truly said to be a humour."256 Die Wortgeschichte... | |
 | George Ian Duthie - 2005 - 216 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. Now thus far 1 Shakespeare: A Survey (1935), p. 174. 'Publications of the Modern Language Association of America,... | |
 | Peter Childs, Roger Fowler - 2006 - 280 lapas
...(melancholic). These are used by Ben Jonson to construct an idea of character obsession. A humour may 'so possess a man, that it doth draw / All his affects, his spirits and his power, / In their confluctions, all to run one way' (Prologue to Every Man Out of His Humour, 1600).... | |
 | Editors of Editors of the American Heritage Di - 2006 - 308 lapas
...character in one of these, Ben Jonson's Every Man in His Humour (1598), describes a humour as follows: 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... | |
 | Katrin Hockenjos - 2006 - 262 lapas
...vorherrschende Charaktereigentümlichkeit Humour nennt. Ein Wort, das er so definiert: as when some peculiar quality Doth so possess a man, that it doth draw All his effect, his spirits and his powers 173 Cathrin Brockhaus, Aphra Behn und ihre Londoner Komödien. Die... | |
 | Amanda Bailey - 2007 - 201 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. (Ind. 85-100) Humours are, as Asper explains, fluids born of the heat and air found in matter that... | |
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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. 
