 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1854 - 472 pages
...mind stored with principles and observations ; he poured out his knowledge with little labour : for of Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give...the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; lie needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature; he looked inwards and found her there. I cannot... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1854 - 128 pages
...images of nature were still present to him ; and he drew them not laboriously but luckily. Where he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him of having wanted learning, give him the greater commendation. He was naturally learned ; he needed... | |
 | Authors, English - 1855 - 834 pages
...unities is wanted learning, give him the greater commendation : he was naturally learned; he needed ¿lot the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot say he is everywhere alike; were he во, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind.... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 374 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. — Dryden. CVIIL Pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed ; Or like... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes any thing, you more than see it—you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning,...looked inwards and found her there. I cannot say he is everywhere alike; were he so, I should do him injury to com. pare him with the greatest of mankind.... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 570 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...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,... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1856 - 1048 pages
...modern and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul ; that, although not learned, he needed not the spectacles of books to...nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there." And when altering the play of the Tempest to suit the taste of his audience, Dryden acknowledged that... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1856 - 518 pages
...present to him, and he drew them not laboriously but (1) Steevens. luckily : when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to Lave wanted learning, give him the greater commendation ; he was naturally learned ; he needed not... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 354 pages
...images of Nature were Btill present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, hut luckily : when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel...spectacles of books to read Nature ; he looked inwards, aud found her there. I cannot say he is every where alike ; were he so, 1 should do him injury to compare... | |
 | English poetry - 1857 - 574 pages
...When he describes any thing, yon more than see it—- you feel it too. Those who accuse him of having wanted learning, give him the greater commendation....looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot say he is everywhere alike; were he so, I should do him an injury to compare him with tha greatest of mankind.... | |
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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... 
