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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... "
A Manual of Essays: Selected from Various Authors - Page 118
by Manual - 1809
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Studies in Poetry: Embracing Notices of the Lives and Writings of the Best ...

George Barrell Cheever - 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....
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 3-4

Robert Chambers - 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....
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The English Instructor: Being a Collection of Pieces in Prose, Selected from ...

1830 - 288 pages
...was nalu" rally learned. He needed not the spectacles " of books 3 to read nature. He looked inward " and found her there. I cannot say he is every " where alike. Were he so4, I should do him " injury to compare him to the greatest of " mankind. He is many times flat and...
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The anniversary calendar, natal book, and universal mirror, Volume 2

Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 600 pages
...learning" (Dryden remarks), " give him the greater commendation : he was naturally learned ; he needed riot the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked...injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind." MILTON. The funeral was attended by all the author's learned and great friends in London, not without...
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The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge

1832 - 406 pages
...he describes anything, you more than see it — you feel it too. Those who uccuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation ; he was...nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there." Besides his plays, Shakspeare was the author of several other poetical productions, and especially...
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The Book of Versions; Or, Guide to French Translation: With Notes, to Assist ...

J. Cherpilloud - 1833 - 272 pages
...to him™, and he drew them not" laboriously, but, luckily; you more than see " what he describes, you feel it too*. Those who accuse him of wanting...commendation^; he was naturally learned; he needed not books to read r nature; he looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot say he is* every where alike1;...
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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres ...: To which are Added, Copious ...

Hugh Blair - 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...
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The Works of John Dryden: In Verse and Prose, with a Life, Volume 2

John Dryden, John Mitford - 1836 - 488 pages
...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 was...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 Young Lady's Book of Elegant Prose: Comprising Selections from the Works ...

1836 - 342 pages
...him to have wanted learning give him the greater commendation : he was naturally learned ; he nceded not the spectacles of books 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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Thirty Years Ago: Or, The Memoirs of a Water Drinker, Volume 1

William Dunlap - 1836 - 224 pages
...his works maybe collected asystem of civil and economical prudence." — Johnson. "He (Shakspeare) needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards, and found her there." — Oryden. SPIFFARD had a predilection for aged companions. Old age is reverenced for its supposed...
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