 ... 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
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 488 pages
...give him the greater commendation ; he was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of booka to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot say he is every where alike ; were he so T should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 444 pages
...learning, give him the greater commendation : he was naturally learned: he needed not the sfiectacles of books to read nature •; he looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot say he is every where alike ; were he so, J should do him injury to comfiare him with the greatest... | |
 | Friedrich Bouterwek - Literature - 1810 - 500 pages
...Commendation : he was naturally fcarn'd: he needed not the Speflacles of Books to xead Nature; he loek'd inwards, and found- her there. I cannot fay, he is every where alike i were he fo , I fhould do him injury to compare him with the greáteft of Mankind. He is many times... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1811 - 510 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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English literature - 1811 - 510 pages
...squabbles about his learning have had their day ; — " He needed nnt," as Drydcu says, " the spectacles of books to read nature : he looked inwards, and found her there." — It is much more probable, that his own feelings si!ij,r.'fi'ii to him the best consolation the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 436 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 Aikin - Biography - 1814 - 662 pages
...luckily. When he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too. 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 - 1814 - 532 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... | |
 | 710 pages
...far from right. " Shakspeare (as Dryden says) was naturally learned : he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature: he looked inwards, and found her there." Warburton and Johnson are almost the only commentators of the poet who venture upon criticism. The... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 492 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... | |
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