 | John Aikin - Biography - 1814 - 662 pages
...laboriously, but luckily. When he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too. He needed not the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked...injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat and insipid ; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1814 - 532 pages
...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...injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat and insipid; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1814 - 470 pages
...nature ; he looked mwards, and found her there. I cannot say be is every where alike; were be so, 1 should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many tunes flat and msipid; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into... | |
 | 710 pages
...then sometimes not far from right. " Shakspeare (as Dryden says) was naturally learned : he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature: he looked inwards, and found her there." Warburton and Johnson are almost the only commentators of the poet who venture upon criticism. The... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1815 - 582 pages
...learned. He needed not the spectacles of books to read nature. He looked inward, and found her there. 1 cannot say he is every where alike. Were he so, I should Jo him injury, to compare him to the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat and insiped ; his comic... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 492 pages
...have wanted learning, give him the " greater commendation : he was naturally learned: "he needed not the spectacles of books to read " nature; he looked...injury to compare him with " the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat " and insipid ; his comick wit degenerating into " clenches, his serious swelling... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 514 pages
...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 \vhere alike ; were he " so I, should do him injury to compare him with " the greatest of mankind.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1817 - 350 pages
...have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation ; he was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked...injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat and insipid ; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling... | |
 | England - 1845 - 816 pages
...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 caunot say he is every where alike ; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1818 - 338 pages
...have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation: he was na» turally learned: he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked...injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind, He is many times flat, and insipid; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling... | |
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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... 
