 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1774 - 412 pages
...who accufe him to have wanted 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 fay he is every where alike ; were he fo I fliould do him Injury... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - Books - 1784 - 628 pages
...learning, give him the greateft commendation. He was naturally learned. He needed not the fpeftacles of books to' read nature. He looked inward, and found her there. I cannot fay he is every where alike. Were he fo, I fliould do him injury, to compare him to the greateft... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 346 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 ; he looked inwards, and " found her there, I cannot say he is every where " alike ; were he so, I should do him... | |
 | 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 ; he looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot say he is every where alike; were he so, I should do him injury... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - English prose literature - 1800 - 591 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; he looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot say he is every where alike; were he so, I should do him injury... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 494 pages
...who 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; he looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot say he is every where alike ; were lie so, I should do him injury... | |
 | 1804 - 452 pages
...circumstances of aweful and mysterious solemnity, and speak commendation. 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 alike. Were he so, I should do him injury to compare him to the greatest... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 444 pages
...indeed, not much more justly remarked by Dryden of Shakspeare, than it misjht be of Bloomtield, that, " he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards and found her there." And to proceed, mulido nomine, with what Dr. Johnson says of the best... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 394 pages
...who 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; he looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot say he is every where alike; were he so, I should do him injury... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1807 - 402 pages
...of wanting learning, give him the greatest 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 alike. Were he so, I should do him injury, to compare him tu the greatest... | |
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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... 
