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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... "
The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners: With Strictures on Their ... - Page 337
1804
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57

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...
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Studies in English poetry [an anthology] with biogr. sketches and notes by J ...

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...
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Lectures on the English Comic Writers

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...
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Specimens of the British Critics

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...
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The New Pictorial & Illustrated Family Magazine, Established for ..., Volume 3

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...
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Bibliotheca Sacra and Theological Review, Volume 4

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...
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Introduction to the Literature of Europe: In the Fifteenth ..., Volume 2

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...
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Bits of books, from old and modern authors, for railway travellers

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...
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The Genealogy and History of the Family of Williams in America

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...
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An Essay on English Poetry: With Notices of the British Poets

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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