 | William Shakespeare - 1838 - 1130 pages
...feel it too. Those, who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation ; he was ous bolt, Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak, Tnaa the soft myrtle ; — But m inwards, and found her there. I cannot say he is every where alike ; were he so, I should do him injury... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1839 - 702 pages
...greatest commendation. He was naturally learned. He needed not the spectacles of hooks, to read natnre. He looked inward, and found her there. I cannot say he is cvrry where tlike. Were he so, I should do him injury to compare him to the greatest of mankind. He... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1842 - 484 pages
...learning give him the greater recommendation ; he was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacle« of books to read nature ; he looked inward, and found her there."— Dryden's Prow Works (Malone'i edition), vol. L, part u., p. 99. 204 205 is something magisterial in... | |
 | James Stamford Caldwell - 1843 - 372 pages
...feel it too. Those who accuse him to 2 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. 3 What! needs my Shakspeare for his honour'd bones The labour of an age... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 348 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, 1 should do him injury... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1844 - 846 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 everywhere alike ; were he во, I should do him injury... | |
 | 1844 - 878 pages
...And Dryden, in commenting on the genius of Shakspeare, truly observes, that the great dramatist 'was naturally learned — he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature.' Thus, as a man is sometimes said to 'see' that which is invisible, such as a fine thought, the point... | |
 | 1845 - 842 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... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1845 - 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." Another great man, who looms up in the distance of three centuries, and... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1845 - 512 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 u 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... 
