 | Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 374 pagina’s
...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 - 1774 - 374 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 - 1800 - 591 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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.... | |
 | 1804 - 444 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 - 1806 - 376 pagina’s
...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... 
