 ... 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
 | American literature - 1836 - 342 pages
...learning give him the greater commendation : he was naturally learned ; he nceded 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... | |
 | William Dunlap - History - 1836 - 224 pages
...asystem of civil and economical prudence." — Johnson. "He (Shakspeare) needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards, and found her there." — Oryden. SPIFFARD had a predilection for aged companions. Old age is reverenced for its supposed... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1836 - 504 pages
...learning, give him the greater recommandation: he «as naturelly learned; he needed not tlio spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards, and found her there etc." 23) „Shakespeare," fagt er, „is many times flat and insipid ; his cooiirk wit degenerating... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1837 - 334 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, 1 should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1837 - 334 pages
...learning, give him the greater commendation : he was natu-rally 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 - 1838 - 1130 pages
...learning, give him the greater commendation ; he was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles k, Tnaa the soft myrtle ; — But man, proud man ! Drest in a little brief say he is every where alike ; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1840 - 954 pages
...pathetic." t When Dryden says, " That Shakspere was naturally learned, and needed not the spectacles of books to read nature — he looked inwards, and found her there !" we must consider this as one of those panegyrical sentences that are not very satisfactory when... | |
 | James Stamford Caldwell - Literature and morals - 1843 - 372 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. 3 What! needs my Shakspeare for his honour'd bones The labour of an age in piled stones, Or that his... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 348 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, 1 should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of... | |
 | Scotland - 1845 - 842 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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