 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1854 - 980 pages
...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 naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacle* of books to read nature ; he looked inwards and found her there. I cannot say he is everywhere... | |
 | John Dryden - Literary Criticism - 2023 - 586 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 him the greater commendation: he was naturally learn'd; he needed not the spectacles of Books to read Nature; he look'd inwards, and found her there."... | |
 | Michael Steppat - Drama - 1980 - 646 pages
...Piece of Secret History (1747). The feeling voiced by Dryden himself that those who accuse Shakespeare to have wanted learning "give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learn'd," y had been developed against lesser poets than Shakespeare — as also against Dryden himself... | |
 | James G. McManaway - 1990 - 442 pages
...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 naturally learn 'd; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature, he look'd inwards, and found her there.... | |
 | Michael J. Sidnell - Drama - 1991 - 332 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 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... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 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 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... | |
 | Alan Sinfield - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 172 pages
...nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but 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... | |
 | Bill Readings - Education - 1996 - 260 pages
...Latin, Shakespeare is claimed by Dryden not to have written with anything in mind: "Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learn'd; he needed not the spectacles of Books to read Nature; he look'd inwards, and found her there."16... | |
 | Laurie Rozakis - Fiction - 1999 - 406 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 him the greater commendation: he was naturally learn'd; he needed not the spectacles of Books to read Nature; he look'd inwards, and found her there.... | |
 | Margreta de Grazia, Stanley Wells - Drama - 2001 - 352 pages
...Nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but 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... | |
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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... 
