| John Dryden - 1800 - 624 pages
...Jonson ; a caution which proves decisively the wretched taste of the period when he wrote. feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give...looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot say he is every where alike; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind.... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1800 - 330 pages
...but luckily : when he defcribes any thing, you more than iee it, you feel it too. Thofe, who accufe him to have wanted learning, give him the greater...commendation ; he was naturally learned ; he needed not the fpeclades of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, 2nd found her there. I cannot fay he is every... | |
| Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 454 pages
...luckily : when he »' dcfcribcs any thing, you more than fee it, you feel ** it too. Thofe, who accufe him to have wanted " learning, 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... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1803 - 494 pages
...not laboriously, but luckily : when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those, who accuse him to have wanted learning, give...looked inwards, and found her 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.... | |
| William Shakespeare, George Steevens, Samuel Johnson - 1803 - 542 pages
...but luckily : when he defcribes any thing, you more than fee it, you feel it too. Thofe, who accufe him to have wanted learning, give him the greater...commendation ; he was naturally learned ; he needed not the fpedacles of books to read nature 5 he looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot fay he is every... | |
| Great Britain - 1804 - 444 pages
...spirits of all kinds, are described with such circumstances of aweful and mysterious solemnity, and speak commendation! He was naturally learned. He needed...the spectacles of books to read nature. He looked inward, and found her there. I canno Isay he is every where alike. Were lie so, I should do him injury... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1806 - 394 pages
...them not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those, who accuse him to have wanted learning, give...looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot say he is every where alike; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind.... | |
| George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 548 pages
...laboriously, but luckily : when he describes any thing, you more, than see it — you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give...looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot say he is every where alike ; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind.... | |
| George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...not laboriously, but luckily : when he describes any thing, you more than see it — you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give...looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot say he is every where alike ; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind.... | |
| John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 432 pages
...not laboriously, but luckily : when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give...looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot say he is every where alike ; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind.... | |
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