| William Shakespeare - 1844 - 598 pages
...must I not give Nature all ; thy art, My gentle Shakspeare, must enjoy a part : For though the poct's matter nature be, His art doth give the fashion ;...as thine are) and strike the second heat Upon the muses' anvil ; turn the same, (And himself with it) that he thinks to frame ; Or for the laurel he... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...vouchsafe no other wit. The merry Greek, tart Aristophanes, Neat Terence, witty Plautus, now not please ; Muses' anvil ; turn the same, And himself with it, that he thinks to frame ; Or for the laurel, he... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1847 - 578 pages
...Terence, witty Plauius, now not please ¡ But antiquated and deserted lie. As they were not of Naturel family. Yet must I not give Nature all : thy art,...Muse's anvil ; turn the same, And himself with it, that he thinks to frame; Or for the laurel, he may gain a scorn, For a good poet s made, as well as born.... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pages
...Aristophanes, Neat Terence, witty Plautu«, now not please ; But antiquated and deserted lie, Ŕ˙ they were not of nature's family. Yet must I not give...as thine are) and strike the second heat Upon the Muses' anvil ; turn the same, And himself with it, that he thinks to frame ; Or for the laurel, he... | |
| Sir Edward Strachey - 1848 - 116 pages
...intelligible to common men, who could never have discovered them for themselves. As Ben Jonson says — Yet must I not give nature all ; thy art, My gentle...matter nature be, His art doth give the fashion.• Look how the father's face Lives in his issue ; even so the race Of Shakspeare's mind and manners brightly... | |
| Charles Knight - 1849 - 574 pages
...construction of his expression : — " Yet must I not give Nature all : thy art, My gentle Shakspere, must enjoy a part. For though the poet's matter Nature...as thine are), and strike the second heat Upon the Muses' anvil : turn the same (And himself with it) that he thinks to frame ; Or, for the laurel, he... | |
| Charles Knight - 1849 - 582 pages
...construction of his expression : — " Yet must I not give Nature all : thy art, Jfy gentle Shakspere, must enjoy a part. For though the poet's matter Nature...sweat (Such as thine are), and strike the second heat * ' The Poetaster,' Art v. Se. I. t Book vni. fh. ip 3UO. Upon the Muses' anvil : turn the same (And... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1851 - 500 pages
...they were not of Nature's family. Yet must I not give Nature all : thy art, My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a part : For though the poet's matter nature...as thine are,) and strike the second heat Upon the muses' anvil ; turn the same, (And himself with it,) that he thinks to frame ; Or for the laurel he... | |
| 1852 - 662 pages
...the most envious of his competitors. Ben Jonson, an adherent of the ancients, thus writes of him : " Yet must I not give Nature all ; thy Art, My gentle...casts to write a living line, must sweat, (Such as are thine,) and strike the second heat Upon the muses' anvil ; turn the same, (And himself with it,)... | |
| Thomas Smibert - 1852 - 126 pages
...since, she will vouchsafe no other wit. Yet must I not give Nature all ; thy Art, My gentle Shakspere, must enjoy a part. For though the poet's matter Nature...as thine are), and strike the second heat Upon the Muses' anvil ; turn the same, Aud himself with it, that he thinks to frame ; Or, for the laurel, he... | |
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