 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1774 - 374 pages
...' luckily: When he defcribes any Thing, you more 4 than fee it, you feel it too. Thofe who accufe ' him to have wanted Learning, give him the greater...learned: He * needed not the Spectacles of Books to read Na* ture ; he looked inwards, and found her there. ' I cannot fay he is every where alike ; were he... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1774 - 374 pages
...luckily: When he defcfibes any 1 hing, you more ' than fee it, you feel it too. Thofe who accufc •' him to have wanted Learning, give him the greater...learned: He ' needed not the Spectacles of Books to rea<i Na'* ture$ he looked inwards, and found her there. ' I cannot fay 'he is every where alike ;... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 494 pages
...nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily : when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too....there. I cannot say he is every where alike ; were lie so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat and... | |
 | 1804 - 452 pages
...He »as naturally learned. He needed not the spectacles of books to read nature. He looked inward, and found her there. I cannot say he is every where...Were he so, I should do him injury to compare him to the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat and insipid ; his comic w'it degenerating into clenches;... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1807 - 402 pages
...commendation. He was naturally learned. He needed net (he spectacles of books to read nature. He looked inward, and found her there. I cannot say he is every where...Were he so, I should do him injury, to compare him tu the greatest of mankind, He is many times Gat and insipid ; his comic wit degenerating into clenches... | |
 | 1809 - 604 pages
...nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily : when he describes any thing, you more than see it — you feel it too....read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there. 1 cannot say he is every where alike ; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 488 pages
...drew them not laboriously, but luckily ; \vhen he describes any thing, you. more than se,e it, yow feel it too. Those, who accuse him to have wanted...naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of booka to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot say he is every where alike... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 444 pages
...them not laboriously, but luckily : when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel if too. Those, who accuse him to have wanted learning,...commendation : he was naturally learned: he needed not the sfiectacles of books to read nature •; he looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot say he is... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English literature - 1811 - 400 pages
...was natur" ally learned. He needed not the spectacles of books to read " nature. He looked inward, and found her there. I cannot " say he is every where alike. Were he so, I should do him in" jury to compare him to the greatest of mankind. He is many " times flat and insipid; his comic... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...Mr. Waller among .the English. Dryden. REMARKS ON SOME OF THE UEST ENGLISH DRAMATIC POETS. SHAKSPEARE was the man who, of all modern and perhaps ancient...was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles oi books to read nature ; he looked inwards, an.l found her there. I cannot say he is every when alike;... | |
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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 was... 
