 | Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1842 - 326 pages
...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...there. I cannot say he is everywhere alike; were he so, 1 should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1843 - 326 pages
...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 should do him injury to compare...into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great, when some great occasion is presented to him ; no man can say he ever had a... | |
 | Samuel P. NEWMAN - English language - 1843 - 322 pages
...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 should do him injury to compare...with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, iŁ, insipid; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is... | |
 | Michael J. Sidnell - Drama - 1991 - 332 pages
...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:...looked inwards, and found her there, I cannot say he is every where alike: were he so, I should do him inlury to compare him with the greatest of mankind,... | |
 | James Shapiro - English drama - 1991 - 234 pages
...laboriously, but luckily." Whereas in Jonson's labored art "you find little to retrench or alter," Shakespeare "is many times flat, insipid; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast."56 The critical terms first offered by Jonson at the turn of the century proved elastic enough... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 pages
...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;...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.... | |
 | Jean I. Marsden - Drama - 1995 - 214 pages
...again, Dryden sets the tone, finding Shakespeare both the most brilliant and the dullest of poets: "He is many times flat, insipid; his comic wit degenerating...into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast" (Monk, 55). This objection appears throughout Dryden's essays, particularly in "The Grounds of Criticism... | |
 | Alan Sinfield - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 172 pages
...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 out, this presentation of the 'naturalness' of Shakespeare was a common tactic... | |
 | Aleksandr Tikhonovich Parfenov, Joseph G. Price - Drama - 1998 - 216 pages
...concise in expressing the nature of Shakespeare's genius, in particular that of a poet of tragedy: I cannot say he is everywhere alike; were he so, I...into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great when some great occasion is presented to him; no man can say he ever had a fit... | |
 | Delbert D. Thiessen - Social Science - 170 pages
...the observations of the body in health and disease to learn the truth. He was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to 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.... | |
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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... 
