 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 608 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." — Drydm, " To instruct by delighting is a power seldom enjoyed by... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1854 - 128 pages
...accuse him of having wanted learning, give him the greater commendation. He was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature, he looked inward and found her there. I cannot say that he is every where alike ; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1854 - 1314 pages
...accuse him of wanting learning, give him the greatest commendation. He was naturally lca> u—1 U- needed not the spectacles of books to read nature. He looked inward, anu iminu ner there. I cannot s»y he is every where alike. Were he so, I should do him injury, to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 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 everywhere alike; were he so, I should do him injury... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1896 - 496 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 everywhere alike ; were he BO I should do him injury... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1854 - 778 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... | |
 | David Macbeth Moir - English poetry - 1856 - 358 pages
...truthfulness; and hence his pictures have the accuracy of daguerreotypes. As Dryden said of Shakespeare, " he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature...her there." The same excellence appertains to his sketches of cottage-life. His swains were no Colins and Lubins, who in red silk handkerchiefs and knee-smalls,... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 570 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 inward, and found her there. e, — Anon. ~]>JO poet comes near Shakspeare in the number of bosom lines, — of lines that we may... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1856 - 1048 pages
...and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul ; that, although not learned, he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there." And when altering the play of the Tempest to suit the taste of his audience,... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 374 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. — Dryden. CVIIL Pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower,... | |
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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... 
