 | 1832 - 406 pages
...he describes anything, you more than see it — you feel it too. Those who uccuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation ; he was...nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there." Besides his plays, Shakspeare was the author of several other poetical productions, and especially... | |
 | John Genest - 1832 - 516 pages
...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 to compare...the greatest of mankind — he is many times flat, insipid ; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast — but he is... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 600 pages
...learning" (Dryden remarks), " give him the greater commendation : he was naturally learned ; he needed riot 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 to compare him with the greatest of mankind."... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1833 - 654 pages
...more than see it; you foel it too. They who accuse him of wanting learning, give iiim the gn-ati'st commendation. He was naturally learned. He 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... | |
 | John Dryden, John Mitford - 1836 - 488 pages
...he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation : he was...with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always... | |
 | 1836 - 342 pages
...him to have wanted learning give him the greater commendation : he was naturally learned ; he nceded not the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked...with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid ; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always... | |
 | William Dunlap - 1836 - 224 pages
...his works maybe collected asystem of civil and economical prudence." — Johnson. "He (Shakspeare) needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards, and found her there." — Oryden. SPIFFARD had a predilection for aged companions. Old age is reverenced for its supposed... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1837 - 334 pages
...when he describes any thing you more than see it—you feel it. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation : he was...looked inwards and found her there. I cannot say he is every where alike; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind.... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1837 - 334 pages
...when he describes any thing you more than see it — you feel it. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation : he was...looked inwards and found her there. I cannot say he is every where alike ; were he so, 1 should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1838 - 1130 pages
...he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those, who accuse him to have wanted n \ [thunder. Thou rather, with thy sharp and sulphurous...man, proud man ! Drest in a little brief authority every where alike ; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind.... | |
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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... 
