| Eliza Robbins - 1828 - 408 strani
...them not laboriously, but luckily. When he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too. He needed not the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards and found her there." But, 'Tis wonderful, That an invisible instinct should frame him To poetry unlearned; honour untaught... | |
| John Timbs - 1829 - 354 strani
...Vor cant and vision are to the ear and eye, the same that tickling is to the touch. — Swift. CVII. feel it too. Those who. accuse him to have wanted...read nature; he looked inwards, and found her there. Dryden. cvm. Pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed; Or like the... | |
| Laconics - 1829 - 390 strani
...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,...the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards.and found herthere. — Dry den. cvm. Pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower,... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1829 - 648 strani
...Wt'»r* ib« mneeded not'the spectacles of books to read nature. He looked inward, and found her there. 1 cannot say he is every where alike. Were he so, I should do him injury, to compare him to the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat and ms,p,d ; h,s conuc w,t degenerating into clenches... | |
| Hugh Blair - 1829 - 658 strani
...not the spectacles of books to read nature. He looked inward, and found her there. I cannot say he h every where 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... | |
| 1830 - 430 strani
...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,...every where alike ; — were he so, I should do him an injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid ; his comick... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 strani
...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.... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 strani
...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.... | |
| 1830 - 288 strani
...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... | |
| Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 600 strani
...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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