 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 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. Dryden. cvm. Pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed; Or like the... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1829 - 658 pages
...not the spectacles of books to read nature. He looked inward, and found her there. I cannot say he h 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 degenerating into clenches... | |
 | English periodicals - 1830 - 430 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...every where alike ; — were he so, I should do him an injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid ; his comick... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...to have wanted teaming, 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 to compare him witli the greatest of mankind.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation. He wna naturally learned; he needed not d to heartless woe And feeble désolation casting down The towering hopes and all the pride of man, everywhere alike ; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind.... | |
 | Readers - 1830 - 288 pages
...was nalu" rally learned. He needed not the spectacles " of books 3 to read nature. He looked inward " and found her there. I cannot say he is every " where alike. Were he so4, I should do him " injury to compare him to the greatest of " mankind. He is many times flat and... | |
 | John Genest - Theater - 1832 - 656 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1832 - 364 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, bis serious swelling... | |
 | Civilization - 1832 - 406 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." Besides his plays, Shakspeare was the author of several other poetical productions, and especially... | |
 | Hugh Blair - Rhetoric - 1833 - 654 pages
...needed not the spectacles of books to read nature. He !ook«l inward, and found her there. ] cannot sav 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 degenerating into clenches;... | |
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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... 
