 ... 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
 | Books - 1821 - 408 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 - 1823 - 350 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 - 1823 - 526 pages
...give him the greater commendation ; he was naturally learned; he needed not vOL. i. [E] 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 484 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 - 1825 - 476 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 Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 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 Platts - Biography - 1826 - 882 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... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1827 - 406 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... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - Conduct of life - 1827 - 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... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - English literature - 1827 - 408 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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