 ... 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 - English literature - 1816 - 514 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 \vhere alike ; were he " so I, should do him injury to compare him with " the greatest... | |
 | England - 1845 - 816 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 caunot say he is every where alike ; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1818 - 338 pages
...learning, give him the greater commendation: he was na» turally 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 Hazlitt - English poetry - 1818 - 354 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. leannot say, he is every where alike; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 410 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 450 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 com" pare him with the greatest... | |
 | Books - 1821 - 404 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 - Theater - 1821 - 668 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 - 1821 - 442 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 everywhere alike ; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of... | |
 | Elizabeth Chase - 1821 - 248 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... | |
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