 | Samuel Johnson - 1765 - 80 páginas
...learning, give him the greater com" mendation : he was naturally learned: he needed *' not the fpectacles of books to read nature ; he ** looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot *' fay he is every where alike ; were he fo, I mould " do him injury to compare him with the greateft... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1768 - 676 páginas
...learning, give him the greater com" mendation : he was naturally learned : he needed " not the fpectacles of books to read nature; he " looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot " fay he is every where alike; were he fo, I fhould " do him injury to compare him with the greateft... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1793 - 860 páginas
...learning, give him the greater commendation ; he was naturally learned ; he needed not the fpectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot fay he is every where alike ; were he fo, I ftiould do him injury to compare him with the greatefl... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 454 páginas
...give him the greater commendation : he " was naturally learned : he needed not the fpecta* •' cles of books to read nature; he looked inwards, " and found her there. I cannot fay he is every ** where alike ; were he fo I fhould do him injury to " compare him with the greateft... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 494 páginas
...accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation; he was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature;...there. I cannot say he is every where alike ; were lie so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat and... | |
 | 1804 - 452 páginas
...indaed, not much more justly remarked by Dryden of Shukspearr, than it might be of Bloomfield, that, " he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards and found her there." And to proceed, mutato nomine, with what Dr. Johnson says of the best of poets, " Whether life or nature... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1802 - 422 páginas
...learning, give him the greater commendation : he ivas naturally learned : he needed net .the fpeSacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot fay he is every where alike ; were he Jo, I fhouid do him injury to compare him ivitb the greateft... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 924 páginas
...above spectacles and glasses. Bam. Shakspeare v as naturally learned : he needed not the spect.i.: of books to read nature ; he looked inwards and found her there. DryJen. The 6rst spectacle-maker did not think that he was leading the way to the discovery of new... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 páginas
...was naturally learned : he needed not the &pec" tacles of books to read nature ; he looked m" wards, and found her there. I cannot say he " is every where alike j were he so, I should do " him injury to compare him with the greatest of " mankind. He is many times... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1807 - 402 páginas
...commendation. He was naturally learned. He needed net (he spectacles of books to read nature. He looked inward, and found her there. I cannot say he is every where...Were he so, I should do him injury, to compare him tu the greatest of mankind, He is many times Gat 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... 
