 | Samuel Johnson - 1765 - 80 pages
...learning, give him the greater com" mendation : he was naturally learned: he needed *' not the fpectacles of books to read nature ; he ** looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot *' fay he is every where alike ; were he fo, I mould " do him injury to compare him with the greateft... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1768 - 676 pages
...learning, give him the greater com" mendation : he was naturally learned : he needed " not the fpectacles of books to read nature; he " looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot " fay he is every where alike; were he fo, I fhould " do him injury to compare him with the greateft... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 346 pages
...him to have wanted " learning, give him the greater commendation : he *' was naturally learned: he needed not the spectacles " of books to read nature...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 mankind,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1793 - 860 pages
...learning, give him the greater commendation ; he was naturally learned ; he needed not the fpectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot fay he is every where alike ; were he fo, I ftiould do him injury to compare him with the greatefl... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 591 pages
...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...greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid ; his comick wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great, when... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 634 pages
...accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature;...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 mankind.... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 624 pages
...accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation : he was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature...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 mankind.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 454 pages
...give him the greater commendation : he " was naturally learned : he needed not the fpecta* •' cles of books to read nature; he looked inwards, " and found her there. I cannot fay he is every ** where alike ; were he fo I fhould do him injury to " compare him with the greateft... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 494 pages
...accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation; he was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature;...looked inwards, and found her 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.... | |
 | 1804 - 452 pages
...indaed, not much more justly remarked by Dryden of Shukspearr, than it might be of Bloomfield, that, " he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards and found her there." And to proceed, mutato nomine, with what Dr. Johnson says of the best of poets, " Whether life or nature... | |
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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... 
