 | Eliza Robbins - Children's poetry - 1828 - 408 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 ; he looked inwards and found her there." But, 'Tis wonderful, That an invisible instinct should frame him To poetry unlearned; honour untaught... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 pages
...images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily; when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel...the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards.and found herthere. — Dry den. cvm. Pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower,... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...Vor cant and vision are to the ear and eye, the same that tickling is to the touch. — Swift. CVII. feel it too. Those who. accuse him to have wanted...read nature; he looked inwards, and found her there. Dryden. cvm. Pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed; Or like the... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...describes anything you more than see it, you flel it too. Those, who accuse him to have wanted teaming, give him the greater commendation : he was naturally...looked inwards and found her there. I cannot say he is everywhere alike-, were he so, I should do him injury to compare him witli the greatest of mankind.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...feel it too. Those who accnse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation. He wna attend, Sick nature blasting, and to heartless woe...down The towering hopes and all the pride of man, everywhere alike ; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind.... | |
 | Civilization - 1832 - 406 pages
...but luckily. When he describes anything, you more than see it — you feel it too. Those who uccuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater...nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there." Besides his plays, Shakspeare was the author of several other poetical productions, and especially... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1833 - 1140 pages
...images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily: when he damned : if to be fat be to be hated, then Pharaoh's lean kine are to be loved. No, hav wanted learning, give him the greater commend ation ; he was naturally learned ; he needed DC the... | |
 | Hugh Blair - Rhetoric - 1833 - 654 pages
...more than see it; you foel it too. They who accuse him of wanting learning, give iiim the gn-ati'st commendation. He was naturally learned. He needed not the spectacles of books to read nature. He !ook«l inward, and found her there. ] cannot sav he is every where alike. Were he so, I should do... | |
 | John Dryden, John Mitford - English literature - 1836 - 488 pages
...images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily : when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel...looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot say he is everywhere alike ; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind.... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1836 - 504 pages
...images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily. When he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel...him to have wanted learning, give him the greater recommandation: he «as naturelly learned; he needed not tlio spectacles of books to read nature; he... | |
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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... 
