 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1774 - 374 pages
...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 * Commendation: He...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
...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 * Commendation: He...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 - 1788 - 346 pages
...describes any thing, you more than see it, you " feel it too. Those, who accuse him to have wanted " learning, give him the greater commendation : he *'...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, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 634 pages
...decisively the wretched taste of the period when he wrote. feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation: he was...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
...decisively the wretched taste of the period when he wrote. feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation : he was...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, Edmond Malone - English prose literature - 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...with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid ; his comick wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 494 pages
...he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those, who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation; he was...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.... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 444 pages
...spirits of all kinds, are described with such circumstances of aweful and mysterious solemnity, and speak commendation! He was naturally learned. He needed...the spectacles of books to read nature. He looked inward, and found her there. I canno Isay he is every where alike. Were lie so, I should do him injury... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 394 pages
...he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those, who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation; he was...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 - English literature - 1806 - 376 pages
...to read nature ; he looked m" wards, and found her there. I cannot say he " is every where alike j were he so, I should do " him injury to compare him...He is many times flat and insipid ; " his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his " serious swelling into bombast. But he is al" ways great when some... | |
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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... 
