| Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 Seiten
...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... | |
| Charles Knight - 1868 - 578 Seiten
...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... | |
| Book - 1868 - 168 Seiten
...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...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 is... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 Seiten
...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...with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat and insipid; his comic wit (vein) degenerating into clenches (puns) ; his serious [vein] swelling into... | |
| 1868 - 368 Seiten
...greater recommendation : he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot say...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... | |
| Samuel Phillips Newman - 1834 - 320 Seiten
...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...him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times Hat, insipid; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is... | |
| Class-book - 1869 - 344 Seiten
...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... | |
| James Hain Friswell - 1869 - 498 Seiten
...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...with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat and insipid; his comic degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always... | |
| sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 Seiten
...inborn happy facihty. he was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature ; he looked inwards, and found her there. I cannot say...to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is mam' times flat, insipid ; hia comic wit degenerating into clenches,8 his serious swelling into bombast.3... | |
| Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1850 - 492 Seiten
...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,1 his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great when... | |
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