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Anthologia Anglica, a new selection from the English poets from Spenser to ... - Page 32
by Anthologia Anglica - 1873
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 514 pages
...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...inwards, and found her there. " I cannot say he is every \vhere alike ; were he " so I, should do him injury to compare him with " the greatest of mankind....
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Some account of Shakespeare's ...

William Shakespeare - 1817 - 350 pages
...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...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....
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 57

England - 1845 - 816 pages
...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...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...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 420 pages
...still present to him, and he drew them not laborious'ly, but luckily: when he describes any thing, you ' more than see it, you feel it too. Those who...'inwards, and found her there. I cannot say he is ' every where alike ; were he so I should do him inju' ry to compare him with the greatest of mankind....
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Lectures on the English Poets: Delivered at the Surrey Institution

William Hazlitt - English literature - 1818 - 358 pages
...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 accuse...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....
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Lectures on the English Poets

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1818 - 354 pages
...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 accuse...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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Lectures on the English Poets: Delivered at the Surrey Institution

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1818 - 338 pages
...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 accuse...learning, give him the greater commendation: he was na» turally learned: he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards and found...
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The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volume 11

Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 410 pages
...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...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....
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 450 pages
...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...inwards, and " found her there. I cannot say he is every where " alike; were he so, I should do him injury to com" pare him with the greatest of mankind....
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The Works of John Dryden: Now First Collected in Eighteen Volumes, Volume 15

John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 432 pages
...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 accuse...her there. I cannot say he is everywhere alike; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid...
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