 ... 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 poetry - 1854 - 472 pages
...learning, give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; lie 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... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 304 pages
...analyzed; he drew on th& images of Nature "not laboriously, but luckily"; "he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature; he looked inwards, and found her there." Jonson was thus the more respected in the seventeenth century because his plays were more amenable... | |
 | Michael J. Sidnell - Drama - 1991 - 332 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 inlury to compare him with the greatest of... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 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... | |
 | Alan Sinfield - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 172 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. 44 As Dobson has pointed out, this presentation of the 'naturalness' of Shakespeare was a common tactic... | |
 | Delbert D. Thiessen - Social Science - 170 pages
...body in health and disease to learn the truth. He was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards and found her there. John Dry den English poet He first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest.... | |
 | Howard Anderson - Aesthetics - 1967 - 429 pages
...theory a century earlier. Shakespeare had a genius sufficient to itself, "he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards and found her there." (For "books" read "mathematics," and the statement is identical with the doctrine of the Mannerists... | |
 | Trevor Thornton Ross - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 412 pages
...Rigid Criticks" (Spectator 592). In Dryden's celebrated version, Shakespeare "needed not the spectacle of books to read nature; he looked inwards, and found her there" (1:67). The rules were perhaps the last significant expression of a rhetorical will to harmonize the... | |
 | James P. Bednarz - History - 2001 - 360 pages
...Dryden says, "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." 60 One of the most vehement defenses of Shakespeare by a contemporary is Leonard Digges's opening elegy... | |
 | Margreta de Grazia, Stanley Wells - Drama - 2001 - 352 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. Thus Dryden continued and elaborated the commonplace of Shakespeare as child of nature, and in his... | |
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