 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - Liczba stron: 432
...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...greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid ; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great, when... | |
 | 1821 - Liczba stron: 404
...spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot say he is every where alike ; were he so, I should do him injury to compare...greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid ; his comick wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great, when... | |
 | 1821 - Liczba stron: 408
...spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot say he is every where alike ; were he so, I should do him injury to compare...greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid ; his comick wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast But he is always great, when... | |
 | Elizabeth Chase - 1821 - Liczba stron: 248
...spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards and found her there; I cannot say he is every where alike; were he so, I should do him injury to compare...greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid ; his comic wit, degenerating into clinehes, his serious, swelling into bombast. But he is always great when... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - Liczba stron: 676
...spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot say he is every where alike ; were he so, I should do him injury to compare...with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat and insipid ; his comick wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1823 - Liczba stron: 400
...was ' naturally learned. He needed not the spectacles of books ' to read nature. He looked inward, and found her there. ' I cannot say he is every-where...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 degenerat' ing into... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - Liczba stron: 350
...spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot say he is every where alike ; were he so, I should do him injury to compare...with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat and insipid ; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, .his serious swelling into bombast. But he... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - Liczba stron: 484
...of books to read " nature; he looked inwards, and found her there. " I cannot say he is every where alike ; were he " so I, should do him injury to compare...with " the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat " and insipid ; his comick wit degenerating into " clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - Liczba stron: 526
...spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot say he is every where alike ; were he so, I should do him injury to compare...with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat and insipid ; his comick wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - Liczba stron: 416
...spectacles of books to read nature : he looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot say he is every where alike ; were he so, I should do him injury to compare...with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat and insipid ; his comick wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. ' But he... | |
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He is many times flat, insipid; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great, when some great occasion is presented to him... 
