 | Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 412 pagina’s
...who accufe 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 fay he is every where alike ; were he fo I fliould do him Injury... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - 1784 - 628 pagina’s
...learning, give him the greateft commendation. He was naturally learned. He needed not the fpeftacles of books to' read nature. He looked inward, and found her there. I cannot fay he is every where alike. Were he fo, I fliould do him injury, to compare him to the greateft of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 346 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 624 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 591 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1802 - 414 pagina’s
...give him the greateft commendation. He was naturally learned. He needed not the fpeftacles of hooks to read nature. He looked inward, and found her there. I cannot fay he is every where alike. Were he fo, I fliould do him injury, " to compare him to the greateft... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 494 pagina’s
...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 lie so, I should do him injury... | |
 | 1804 - 444 pagina’s
...indeed, not much more justly remarked by Dryden of Shakspeare, than it misjht be of Bloomtield, that, " he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards and found her there." And to proceed, mulido nomine, with what Dr. Johnson says of the best... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 394 pagina’s
...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 Johnson - 1806 - 376 pagina’s
...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... | |
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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... 
