 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1774 - 412 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 fay he is every where alike ; were he fo I fliould do him Injury to compare him with the Greatefi:... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - Books - 1784 - 628 pages
...more than fee it ; you feel it too. They who accufe him of wanting learning, give him the greateft commendation. He was naturally learned. He needed...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,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 346 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - English prose literature - 1800 - 591 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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 624 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Biography - 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 494 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 lie so, I should do him injury to compare him with the... | |
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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... 
