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Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and Biographical, of ... - Page 87
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The dramatic works of William Shakspeare. Whittingham's ed, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1814 - 532 pages
...not laboriously, but luckily : when he describes any thing, you inore 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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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1814 - 470 pages
...noI laboriously, bnt luckily : when he deseribes any thine, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those, who accuse him to have wanted learning, give...naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of hooks to read nature ; he looked mwards, and found her there. I cannot say be is every where alike;...
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General Biography: Or, Lives, Critical and Historical, of the Most ..., Volume 9

John Aikin - Biography - 1814 - 662 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...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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The Augustan review, Volume 2

710 pages
...and his cap on him ; but he is even then sometimes not far from right. " Shakspeare (as Dryden says) was naturally learned : he needed not the spectacles...read nature: he looked inwards, and found her there." Warburton and Johnson are almost the only commentators of the poet who venture upon criticism. The...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 492 pages
...luckily : when he describes any thing, you " more than see it, you feel it too. Those, who ac" cuse him to have wanted learning, give him the " greater...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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The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 514 pages
...luckily : when he describes any thing, you " more than see it, you feel it too. Those, who ac" cuse him to have wanted learning, give him the " greater...inwards, and found her there. " I cannot say he is every \vhere alike ; were he " so I, should do him injury to compare him with " the greatest of mankind....
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Some account of Shakespeare's ...

William Shakespeare - 1817 - 350 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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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 57

England - 1845 - 816 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...read nature, he looked inwards and found her there. I caunot say he is every where alike ; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 420 pages
...not laborious'ly, 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...'inwards, and found her there. I cannot say he is ' every where alike ; were he so I should do him inju' ry to compare him with the greatest of mankind....
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Lectures on the English Poets: Delivered at the Surrey Institution

William Hazlitt - English literature - 1818 - 358 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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