 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 436 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 484 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 526 pages
...wanted learning, give him the greater commendation ; he was naturally learned; he needed not vOL. i. [E] 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... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1823 - 400 pages
...of books ' to read nature. He looked inward, and found her there. ' I cannot say he is every-where alike. Were he so, I should ' do him injury to compare him to the greatest of mankind. ' He is many times flat and insipid ; his comic wit degenerat' ing into... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 416 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... | |
 | Hugh Blair - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1824 - 510 pages
...commendation. He was naturally learned. He needed not the spectacles of books to read nature. He looked inward, and found her there. I cannot say he is every where alike. Were be so, I should do him injury to compare him to the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 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 clinches, his serious swelling... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 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, insipid ; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 750 pages
...commendation : he was naturally learned : he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature: lie looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot say...injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. lie is many times flat and insipid ; his comie wit degenerating into clenches, hiw 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... 
