 Nor was his attention confined to the actions of men ; he was an exact surveyor of the inanimate world ; his descriptions have always some peculiarities, gathered by contemplating things as they really exist.  Hand-book for Young Painters - Page 45by Charles Robert Leslie - 1870 - 315 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Mercer Garnett - 1890 - 730 pages
...collected, than he alone has given to his country. Nor was his attention confined to the actions of men ; he was an exact surveyor of the inanimate world ;...gathered by contemplating things as they really exist. It may be observed that -the oldest poets of many nations preserve their reputation, and that the following... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1894 - 600 pages
...Three times he says this. And again, ' Nor was Shakespeare's attention confined to the actions of men ; he was an exact surveyor of the inanimate world ;...gathered by contemplating things as they really exist.' Finally he quotes with complete approval Dryden's saying, that Shakespeare ' needed not the spectacles... | |
 | 1894 - 852 pages
...Three times he says this. And again, "Nor was Shakespeare's attention confined to the actions of men ; he was an exact surveyor of the inanimate world ; his descriptions have always some peculiarities, 1 1. Natural History of Insects mentioned in Shakespeare's Plays. By Ic. Patterson. London, 1842. 2.... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1897 - 326 pages
...already see what Johnson l knew, that Shakespeare " was an exact surveyor of " the inanimate [non-human] world ; his descriptions have " always some peculiarities,...gathered by contemplating things " as they really exist ; " reality transformed into the ideal. The strange morbid passion of the Sonnets has naturally given... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1903 - 434 pages
...collected, than he alone has given to his country. Nor was his attention confined to the actions of men ; he was an exact surveyor of the inanimate world ;...gathered by contemplating things as they really exist. It may be observed that the oldest poets of many nations preserve their reputation, and that the following... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1903 - 450 pages
...from his mind, as dew-drops from a lion's mane. Nor was his attention confined to the actions of men ; he was an exact surveyor of the inanimate world ;...gathered by contemplating things as they really exist. It may be observed that the oldest poets of many nations preserve their reputation, and that the following... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1903 - 434 pages
...collected, than he alone has given to his country. Nor was his attention confined to the actions of men ; he was an exact surveyor of the inanimate world ;...descriptions have always some peculiarities, gathered bycontemplating things as they really exist. It may be observed that the oldest poets of many nations... | |
 | 1864 - 884 pages
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 | Beverley Ellison Warner - 1906 - 328 pages
...collected, than he alone has given to his country. Nor was his attention confined to the actions of men ; he was an exact surveyor of the inanimate world; his...gathered by contemplating things as they really exist. It may be observed that the earliest poets of many nations preserve their reputation, and that the... | |
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