"This double feeling is of various kinds and various degrees; some minds receiving a colour from the objects around them, like the effects of the sun beams playing thro' a prism; and others, like the cameleon, having no colours of their own, take just the colours of what chances to be nearest them."
Remarks on the Profession of a Player, Essay II [from The London Magazine]
James Boswell, "Remarks on the Profession of a Player" in <u>The London Magazine, or Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer</u>, vol 39. (London: Printed for R. Baldwin, August, 1770), pp. 397-8, continued in (September, 1770), pp. 468-471, and concluded (October, 1770), pp. 513-517. &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=qPsRAAAAYAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;