 | Manual - Essays - 1809 - 288 pages
...images of nature were still present to him, and be drew them not laboriously but luckily : when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him of wanting learning, give him the greater commendation : he was naturally learned, he needed not the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1810 - 444 pages
...them not laboriously, but luckily : when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel if too. Those, who accuse him to have wanted learning,...commendation : he was naturally learned: he needed not the sfiectacles of books to read nature •; he looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot say he is... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English literature - 1811 - 510 pages
...ridiculous squabbles about his learning have had their day ; — " He needed nnt," as Drydcu says, " the spectacles of books to read nature : he looked inwards, and found her there." — It is much more probable, that his own feelings si!ij,r.'fi'ii to him the best consolation the... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily : when he describe any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too Those...was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles oi books to read nature ; he looked inwards, an.l found her there. I cannot say he is every when alike;... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1814 - 470 pages
...still present to him, and he drew them noI laboriously, bnt luckily : when he deseribes any thine, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those, who...naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of hooks to read nature ; he looked mwards, and found her there. I cannot say be is every where alike;... | |
 | 710 pages
...and his cap on him ; but he is even then sometimes not far from right. " Shakspeare (as Dryden says) was naturally learned : he needed not the spectacles...read nature: he looked inwards, and found her there." Warburton and Johnson are almost the only commentators of the poet who venture upon criticism. The... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 514 pages
...images of nature were still " present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, " but luckily : when he describes any thing, you " more than see it, you feel it too. Those, who ac" cuse him to have wanted learning, give him the " greater commendation : he was naturally learned:... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 492 pages
...images of nature were still " present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, " but luckily : when he describes any thing, you " more than see it, you feel it too. Those, who ac" cuse him to have wanted learning, give him the " greater commendation : he was naturally learned:... | |
 | England - 1845 - 816 pages
...images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously but luckily; when he describes any thing, you more than see it — you...read nature, he looked inwards and found her there. I caunot say he is every where alike ; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1818 - 354 pages
...images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily : when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel...read nature; he looked inwards and found her there. leannot say, he is every where alike; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with 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... 
