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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... "
The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners: With Strictures on Their ... - Page 337
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An Essay on English Poetry; with notices of the British poets. [Edited by ...

Thomas Campbell - 1848 - 468 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 so, I should do him injury...
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A Critical History of English Literature: Shakespeare to Milton, Volume 2

David Daiches - 1979 - 304 pages
...Shakespeare could not be so analyzed; he drew on th& images of Nature "not laboriously, but luckily"; "he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature; he looked inwards, and found her there." Jonson was thus the more respected in the seventeenth century because...
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Sources of Dramatic Theory: Volume 1, Plato to Congreve

Michael J. Sidnell - 1991 - 332 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 inlury...
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William Shakespeare: The Critical Heritage, Volume 5

Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 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...
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Textual Practice 10.3, Volume 10, Issue 3

Alan Sinfield - 1996 - 172 pages
...luckily. . . . 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. 44 As Dobson has pointed out, this presentation of the 'naturalness'...
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A Sociobiology Compendium: Aphorisms, Sayings, Asides

Delbert D. Thiessen - 170 pages
...to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and disease to learn the truth. He was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards and found her there. John Dry den English poet He first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second...
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Studies in Criticism and Aest

Howard Anderson - 1967 - 429 pages
...been conspicuous 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...
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Collected Works Of Samuel Alexander

Samuel Alexander - 2000 - 324 pages
...you feel it too. Those who accuse 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...
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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare

Margreta de Grazia, Stanley Wells - 2001 - 352 pages
...luckily . . . 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. Thus Dryden continued and elaborated the commonplace of Shakespeare as...
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Shakespeare and the Poets' War

James Bednarz - 2001 - 358 pages
..."Those who accuse him to have wanted 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...
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