 | L. T. Evans - 1998 - 268 pages
...Tale, when Perdita spurns the hybrid carnations 'which some call nature's bastards', Polixenes replies 'This is an art which does mend nature - change it rather - but the art itself is nature'. In early maize crops that art was indeed natural, given both the openpollinated... | |
 | Frederick Turner - 1999 - 232 pages
...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. (IV.iv.88) The image that Polixenes uses to explain the relationship between nature... | |
 | Leo Marx - 2000 - 428 pages
...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. The context, it is generally conceded, lends Shakespeare's support to Polixenes'... | |
 | John London - 2000 - 372 pages
...extolling the art of marrying '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' (ll. 93-7). Without a doubt, Shakespeare's play reverberates with murky suspicions... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 436 pages
...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. PERDITA So it is. POLIXENES Then make your garden rich in gillyvors, And do not call... | |
 | Thomas Grimann - 2001 - 376 pages
...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. 24 Im englischen Original steht dafür das Verb ,to marry' und nicht ,to graft'.... | |
 | Harold Bloom - 2001 - 750 pages
...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. / Per. So it is. / Pol. Then make your garden rich in gillyvors, / And do not call... | |
 | Susan J. Wolfson - 2001 - 324 pages
...acknowledges the power of what is not art: nature, say. This independent power is happy with interdependency. "This is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature." "So it is." (The Winter's Tale 4.4.95-97) Keats is deeply touched by Shakespeare,... | |
 | Mary Catherine Rion - 2001 - 196 pages
...gardening in the South. DEBRA McCov-MASSEv, MA HERITAGE PRESERVATION SOUTHERN FLORIST. MARY 0. RION. " This is an art which does mend Nature, — change it rather : but the art itself is Nature."— SH A KS PEA RE. COLUMBIA, SC: PETEH B. GLASS. 1860. Entered according to Act... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2002 - 244 pages
...— Cymbelme III. in 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. Polixenes — WT IV.iv Here's flow'rs for you; Hot lavender, mints, savory, marjoram;... | |
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But nature makes that mean; so 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 a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race. This is an art Which... 
