 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 404 pages
...feel it too. Those who 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 ; he looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot say he is every where alike ; were he so, I should do him injury... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1828 - 534 pages
...feel it too. Those who 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 ; he looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot say he is every where alike ; were he so, I should do him injury... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - 1828 - 408 pages
...them not laboriously, but luckily. When he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too. He needed not the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards and found her there." But, 'Tis wonderful, That an invisible instinct should frame him To poetry... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1829 - 658 pages
...you feel it too. They who accuse him of wanting learning, give him the greatest commendation. He was naturally learned. He needed not the spectacles of...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.... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pages
...feel it too. Those who. 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; he looked inwards, and found her there. Dryden. cvm. Pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower,... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 pages
...feel it too. Those who 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; he looked inwards.and found herthere. — Dry den. cvm. Pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1829 - 648 pages
...* . ^ _ t A ___._!.<.t.»!•»* r.-.nr AM rlit> ,nsasr»tc nr natiirp Wt'»r* ib« mneeded not'the spectacles of books to read nature. He looked inward, and found her there. 1 cannot say he is every where alike. Were he so, I should do him injury, to compare him to the greatest... | |
 | 1830 - 288 pages
..." the greatest commendation2. He 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... | |
 | 1830 - 430 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pages
...feel it too. Those who accnse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation. He wna attend, Sick nature blasting, and to heartless woe And feeble désolation casting inwards, and found her there. I cannot say he is everywhere alike ; were he so, I should do him injury... | |
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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... 
