 ... 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
 | Nathan Drake - Dramatists, English - 1828 - 534 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 Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 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. Dryden. cvm. Pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed; Or like the... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...teaming, 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 witli the greatest of... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...learning, give him the greater commendation. He wna naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles woe And feeble désolation casting down The towering hopes and all the pri say he is everywhere alike ; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of... | |
 | English periodicals - 1830 - 430 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 an injury to compare him with the greatest... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 600 pages
...remarks), " give him the greater commendation : he was naturally learned ; he needed riot 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1832 - 364 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 Genest - Theater - 1832 - 656 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... | |
 | Civilization - 1832 - 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." Besides his plays, Shakspeare was the author of several other poetical productions, and especially... | |
 | John Dryden, John Mitford - English literature - 1836 - 488 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... | |
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