 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 410 pages
...paragraph : — ' To begin then with Shakspeare. He was the man, who, of all modern, and perhaps all ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive...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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 450 pages
...was yet not rectified, nor his allusions understood ; yet then did Dryden pronounce, that Shakespeare was the " man " who, of all modern and perhaps ancient...commendation : he " was naturally learned : he needed not the spectacles *' of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and " found her there. I cannot... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1821 - 442 pages
...of them, in my opinion, at least his equal, perhaps his superior.* To begin then with Shakespeare. He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient...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... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1821 - 408 pages
...way in which they are severally appreciated at the present moment. " To begin, then, with Shakspeare. He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient...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... | |
 | Books - 1821 - 408 pages
...way in which they are severally appreciated at the present moment. " To begin, then, with Shakspeare. He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Theater - 1821 - 668 pages
...was yet not rectified, nor his allusions understood, yet then did Dryden pronounce, " that Shakspeare was the man, who, of all modern and perhaps ancient...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... | |
 | Elizabeth Chase - 1821 - 248 pages
...modern, and perhaps aneient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All the images of L/ nature were still present to him, and he drew them...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 436 pages
...was yet not rectified, nor his allusions understood ; yet then did Dryden pronounce, that Shakespeare was the "man, who, of all modern and perhaps ancient...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 526 pages
...was yet not rectified, nor his allusions understood; yet then did Dryden pronounce, " that Shakspeare was the man, who, of all modern and perhaps ancient...commendation ; he was naturally learned; he needed not vOL. i. [E] the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there. I... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 350 pages
...yet not rectified, nor his allusion-- understood ; yet then did Dryden pronounce, that Shakespeare was the man, who, of all modern and perhaps ancient...he drew them not laboriously, but luckily : when he describe? any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those, who accuse him to have wanted learning,... | |
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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 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... 
