 ... All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously but luckily: when he describes anything you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation: he...  Prose - Page 7251826Full view - About this book
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 444 pages
...remarked by Dryden of Shakspeare, than it misjht be of Bloomtield, that, " he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards and found her there." And to proceed, mulido nomine, with what Dr. Johnson says of the best of poets, " Whether life or nature... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English language - 1805 - 924 pages
...above spectacles and glasses. Bam. Shakspeare v as naturally learned : he needed not the spect.i.: of books to read nature ; he looked inwards and found her there. DryJen. The 6rst spectacle-maker did not think that he was leading the way to the discovery of new... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 394 pages
...learning, give him the greater commendation; he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot say he is every where alike; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...learning, give him the greater commendation : he was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot say he is every where alike ; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 548 pages
...learning, give him the greater commendation : he was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot say he is every where alike ; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 432 pages
...learning, give him the greater commendation : he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot say he is every where alike ; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 394 pages
...learning, give him the greater commendation; he was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot say he is every where alike; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of... | |
 | Manual - Essays - 1809 - 288 pages
...learning, give him the greater commendation : he was naturally learned, he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature, he looked inwards and found her there. I cannot say he is every where alike ; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 390 pages
...learning, give him the greater commendation; he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot say he is every where alike; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of... | |
 | 1809 - 604 pages
...learning, give him the greater commendation : he was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there. 1 cannot say he is every where alike ; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest... | |
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