 | James Hain Friswell - 1869 - 498 pages
...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...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.... | |
 | Class-book - Literature - 1869 - 344 pages
...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...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.... | |
 | John Dryden - Literary Criticism - 2023 - 586 pages
...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 it too....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."... | |
 | James G. McManaway - 1990 - 442 pages
...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...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
...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 it too....is every where alike: were he so, I should do him inlury to compare him with the greatest of mankind, He is many times flat, insipid: his comic wit degenerating... | |
 | Alan Sinfield - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 172 pages
...the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily. . . . Those who accuse him to have wanted learning give...read nature. He looked inwards, and found her there. 44 As Dobson has pointed out, this presentation of the 'naturalness' of Shakespeare was a common tactic... | |
 | Delbert D. Thiessen - Social Science - 170 pages
...must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and disease to learn the truth. He was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles...read nature; he looked inwards and found her there. John Dry den English poet He first wrote, wine is the strongest. The second wrote, the king is strongest.... | |
 | Samuel Alexander - Philosophy - 2000 - 324 pages
...nature were 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 great commendation. He was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature;... | |
 | Margreta de Grazia, Stanley Wells - Drama - 2001 - 352 pages
...the images of Nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily . . . Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give...read Nature; he looked inwards, and found her there. Thus Dryden continued and elaborated the commonplace of Shakespeare as child of nature, and in his... | |
 | James Bednarz - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 358 pages
...or even because of his imputed flaws. "Those who accuse him to have wanted learning," Dryden says, "give him the greater commendation. He was naturally...read nature. He looked inwards and found her there." 60 One of the most vehement defenses of Shakespeare by a contemporary is Leonard Digges's opening elegy... | |
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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... 
