 ... you more than see it, you 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...  Johnson on Shakespeare: Essays and Notes - Page 62by Samuel Johnson - 1908 - 206 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 346 pages
...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,...is " many times flat and insipid ; his comick wit dege" aerating into clenches, his serious swelling into " bombast. *< bombast. But he is always great,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 624 pages
...; 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...with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid ; his comick wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - English prose literature - 1800 - 591 pages
...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...with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid ; his comick wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always... | |
 | 1804 - 452 pages
...learned. He needed not the spectacles of books to read nature. He looked inward, and found her there. I cannot say he is every where alike. Were he so, I should do him injury to compare him to the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat and insipid ; his comic w'it degenerating into clenches;... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 394 pages
...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...insipid; his comick wit degenerating into clenches, bis serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great, when some great occasion is presented to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 376 pages
...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...mankind. He is many times flat and insipid ; " his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his " serious swelling into bombast. But he is al" ways great... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...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...with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid ; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into 'bombast. But he is always... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1807 - 1152 pages
...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...with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid ; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always... | |
 | Hugh Blair - English language - 1807 - 402 pages
...learned. He needed net (he spectacles of books to read nature. He looked inward, and found her there. I cannot say he is every where alike. Were he so, I should do him injury, to compare him tu the greatest of mankind, He is many times Gat and insipid ; his comic wit degenerating into clenches... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 432 pages
...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...with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid ; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always... | |
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