| England - 1845 - 816 pages
...feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation : he was naturally learned, he needed not the 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... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation ; he was naturally learned ; he needed not the 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... | |
| William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 510 pages
...feel it, too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning give him the greater commendation : he was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards and found her there. I cannot say he is everywhere alike ; were he so, I should do him injury... | |
| John Wilson - Criticism - 1846 - 360 pages
...feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation : he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards and found her there. I cannot say he is everywhere alike ; were he so, I should do him injury... | |
| 1846 - 544 pages
...And Dryden, in commenting on the genius of Shakspere, truly observes, that the great dramatist " was naturally learned — he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature." Thus, as a man is sometimes said to "see" that which is invisible, such j as a fine thought, the point... | |
| Theology - 1847 - 824 pages
...feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation. He was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of...looked inward and found 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... | |
| Henry Hallam - Europe - 1847 - 490 pages
...feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning give him the greater recommendation ; he was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of...nature; he looked inward, and found her there."— Dryden's Prose Works (Malone's edition), vol. i. . part ii., p. 99. is something magisterial in the... | |
| Bits - Anthologies - 1847 - 88 pages
...feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation. He was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards, and found her there. I connot say he is everywhere alike; were he so, I should do him injury... | |
| Stephen West Williams - 1847 - 470 pages
...seemed to have been his by intuition. ' He needed not,' as Dryden said of Shakspeare, ' the spectacle of books to read nature : he looked inward, and found her there.' By a kind of untaught anatomy, he was capable of dissecting our intellectual and moral frame. It was... | |
| Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1848 - 452 pages
...feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning give him the greater commendation ; he was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot say he is everywhere alike ; were he so, I should do him injury... | |
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