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Essays of John Dryden: Introdcution. List of Dryden's works. Epistle ... - Page 80
by John Dryden - 1900
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 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. I cannot say lie is everywhere alike; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind....
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The Plays & Poems of Shakespeare: Life of Shakespeare. Dr. Johnson's preface ...

William Shakespeare - 1857 - 354 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, aud found her there. I cannot say he is every where alike ; were he so, 1 should do him injury to compare...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 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 everywhere alike ; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind....
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A class-book of English prose, with biogr. notices, explanatory notes and ...

Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 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 everywhere alike ; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind....
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The Works of John Dryden: In Verse and Prose, Volume 2

John Dryden - 1859 - 482 pages
...give him the preater commendation : ho was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of hooks to read nature; he 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....
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The Prose and Prose Writers of Britain from Chaucer to Ruskin: With ...

Robert Demaus - 1860 - 580 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 everywhere alike ; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind....
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A Catalogue of Books, the Property of a Political Economist: With Critical ...

John Ramsay McCulloch - 1862 - 432 pages
...spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inward, and found her there. I cannot say he is everywhere alike. Were he so, I should do him injury to compare him to the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat and insipid ; his comic wit degenerating into clenches,...
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A Compendium of English Literautre: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation: ho was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards and found her mere. I cannot say he is everywhere alike; were he so, I should do him injury to com. pare him with...
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The Afternoon Lectures on English Literature Delivered in Dublin in May and ...

1863 - 276 pages
...learning give him the greater commendation ; he was naturally learned ; he needed not the fpeftacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there. But Ben Jonfon was a moft learned and judicious writer ; a moft fevere judge of himfelf and others....
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The Afternoon Lectures on English Literature, Delivered in the Theatre of ...

Robert Henry Martley, Richard Denny Urlin - 1863 - 304 pages
...learning give him the greater commendation ; he was naturally learned ; he needed not the fpeftacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there. But Ben Jonfon was a moft learned and judicious writer ; a moft fevere judge of himfelf and others....
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