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A Manual of Essays: Selected from Various Authors - Page 118
by Manual - 1809
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An Essay on English Poetry: With Notices of the British Poets

Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1848 - 452 pages
...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...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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An Essay on English Poetry; with notices of the British poets. [Edited by ...

Thomas Campbell - 1848 - 468 pages
...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...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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Lectures on the English Poets

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1849 - 290 pages
...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...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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Studies of Shakspere: Forming a Companion Volume to Every Edition of the Text

Charles Knight - 1849 - 582 pages
...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...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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Studies of Shakspere: Forming a Companion Volume to Every Edition of the Text

Charles Knight - 1849 - 574 pages
...you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning give him the greater commendation : be was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles...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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Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres

Hugh Blair - English language - 1849 - 650 pages
...needed not the spectacles of books to read nature. He looked inward, and found her there. 1 cannot suy 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 Bat and insipid ; his comic wit degenerating into clenches...
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The English Language in Its Elements and Forms: With a History of Its Origin ...

William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1851 - 1502 pages
...he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those that accuse him to have wanted learning give him the greater commendation. He was...the spectacles of books to read Nature ; he looked inward, and found her there. I ran not say he is every where alike ; were he so, I should do him injustice...
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The Wisdom and Genius of Shakespeare: Comprising Moral Philosophy ...

William Shakespeare - 1853 - 608 pages
...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...read Nature; he looked inwards, and found her there." — Drydm, " To instruct by delighting is a power seldom enjoyed by man, and still seldomer exercised....
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Specimens of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices, and ...

Thomas Campbell - English poetry - 1853 - 838 pages
...learning, pive him the jrreater commendation : he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacle* of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot say he is everywhere alike ; were he so, 1 should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind....
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The book of versions, or guide to French translation

J. Cherpilloud - 1853 - 266 pages
...laboriously, but., luckily; you more than see° what he describes, you feel it too*. Those who acuse him of wanting learning, give him the greater commendation*; he was naturally learned ; he needed not books to read' nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there. 1 cannot say he is1 every where alike';...
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