 | Howard Anderson - Aesthetics - 1967 - 429 pages
...in Mannerist theory a century earlier. Shakespeare had a genius sufficient to itself, "he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards and found her there." (For "books" read "mathematics," and the statement is identical with the doctrine of the Mannerists... | |
 | Samuel Alexander - Philosophy - 2000 - 324 pages
...him to have wanted learning give him the great commendation. He was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards, and found her there.1 1 cannot say he is everywhere alike; were he so I should do him an injury to compare him with... | |
 | Trevor Thornton Ross - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 412 pages
...Rigid Criticks" (Spectator 592). In Dryden's celebrated version, Shakespeare "needed not the spectacle of books to read nature; he looked inwards, and found her there" (1:67). The rules were perhaps the last significant expression of a rhetorical will to harmonize the... | |
 | Quotations - 2001 - 838 pages
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 | James Bednarz - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 358 pages
...learning," Dryden says, "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." 60 One of the most vehement defenses of Shakespeare by a contemporary is Leonard Digges's opening elegy... | |
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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... 
