 | William Shakespeare - 1849 - 952 pages
...Which, you say, adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentle it would give eternal food to his jealousy. Mrs....unmcasurable distance. Mrs. Ford. You are the happier in earth to set one slip of them : No more than, were I painted, I would wish This youth should say,... | |
 | Joseph Allen Bryant - 1986 - 300 pages
...argument that will support her marriage to his son as prince of the realm: You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock. And make conceive...— change it rather; but The art itself is Nature. [V,iv.92-97] In Polixenes' mind, of course, Perdita is the "bark of baser kind" destined to be made... | |
 | Ekbert Faas - 1986 - 244 pages
...over art, Which you say adds to Nature, is an art, That Nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive...Nature, change it rather, but The art itself is Nature, (iv.iv) It is distorting the facts to say that these words voice no more than an "orthodox" aesthetic... | |
 | Frederick Burwick - 2010 - 357 pages
...by no mean, Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive...nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature. (IV.iv.89-97) Aware of his son's attraction to a shepherd's daughter, King Polixenes, in his botanical... | |
 | Takashi Suzuki, Tsuyoshi Mukai - 1993 - 302 pages
...that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. . . You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive.... change it rather, but The art itself, is nature. Hamlet' s words should be taken as emphasising that 'Nature' makes 'an arf in drama. If Art itself... | |
 | A. Dwight Baldwin, Judith De Luce, Carl Pletsch - 1994 - 294 pages
...that art, Which you say adds to Nature, is an art That Nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive...Nature, change it rather; but The art itself is Nature. (4.4.83-97) We find similar ideas in other great Renaissance aesthetic theorists — the architects... | |
 | Pauline Kiernan - 1998 - 236 pages
...that art, Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive...- change it rather - but The art itself is nature. Perdita. So it is. Polixenes. Then make your garden rich in gillyvors, And do not call them bastards.... | |
 | Kenneth M. Price - 1996 - 392 pages
...that art, Which, you say, adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock; And make conceive...— change it rather: but The art itself is nature." Whitman has not failed to perceive this truth, but he fears that it may be abused. Meddling with nature... | |
 | Cheryll Glotfelty, Harold Fromm - 1996 - 466 pages
...that art, Which you say adds to Nature, is an art That Nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive...Nature, change it rather; but The art itself is Nature. As usual, Shakespeare says it all: the subtext here is that Perdita is a base shepherdess who wants... | |
 | Northrop Frye, Professor Robert D Denham - 1997 - 592 pages
...over that art Which you say adds to Nature, is an art That Nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive...Nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature. Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale [4.4.89—971 Nearly all the deeper questions dealt with by modern philosophers... | |
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You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock ; And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race ; This is an art Which does mend nature, — change it rather : but The art itself is nature. 
