 | John Abraham Heraud - 1865 - 548 pàgines
...art? Ben Jonson knew the fact better: " Yet must I not give Nature all ; thy art, My gentle Shakspere, must enjoy a part ; For though the poet's matter nature be, His art doth give the fashion .... For a good poet's made as well as born ; And such wert thou." By this time Pisanio has received... | |
 | 1865 - 792 pàgines
...richly spun and woven to fit As since she will vouchsafe no other wit. ****»» Yet must I not gire Nature all ; thy art, My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a part. * * * * « » For a good poet's made as well as born, And such wert thou. Look how the father's face Lives in his issue... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - 584 pàgines
...great poet earned his laurel, in the opinion of his contemporaries, by the most diligent industry. *' Yet must I not give Nature all ; thy art, My gentle...be, His art doth give the fashion : and that he Who oasts to write a living line, must sweat, (Such as thine are,) and strike the second heat Upon the... | |
 | Ebenezer Forsyth - 1867 - 148 pàgines
...Terence, witty Plautus, now not please ; But antiquated and deserted lye, As they were not of Natures family. Yet must I not give Nature all ; thy Art, My gentle Shakspeare, must enjoy a part : For though the Poets matter, Nature be, His Art doth give the fashion.... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1868 - 570 pàgines
...with Drummond, offers the most direct evidence against such a construction of his expression : — " Yet must I not give Nature all : thy art, My gentle...enjoy a part For though the poet's matter Nature be, 1 1 is art doth give the fashion : and that he Who casts to write a living line must sweat (Such as... | |
 | Class-book - 1869 - 344 pàgines
...Terence,10 witty Plautus,10 now not please ; But antiquated and deserted lie, As they were not of nature's family. Yet must I not give nature all ; thy art, My gentle Shakspeare, must enjoy a part. 4O 1 John Lyly, born about 1554, wrote masques and plays for court entertainments.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1875 - 656 pàgines
...Terence, witty 1'lautiis, now not please, lint antiquated anil deserted lie, As they were not of Nature's family. Yet must I not give Nature all : thy art, My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a part: K >r, though the poet's matter nature be, His art doth give the fashion ; and that he Who casts to... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1872 - 488 pàgines
...the folio of 1623, he puts this point just as, we may be sure, he had himself seen it to be true : " Yet must I not give Nature all ; thy art, My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a part : For a good poet 's made, as well as born ; And such wert thou." As to the question how far his genius went... | |
 | 1879 - 592 pàgines
...construed either way." Right here a critic remarks, " This is absurd," and quotes Ben Jonson's lines : Yet must I not give nature all ; thy art, My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a part. For a good poet's made as well as born, And such wert thou — which are supposed important enough to require... | |
 | Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1872 - 274 pàgines
...thought Ben Jonson,—himself a thoroughly artistic poet,—who, speaking of Shakespeare, says that " Though the poet's matter Nature be, . His art doth give the fashion." He also gives warning against the neglect of the poetical art, saying that if the poet trust too much... | |
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Yet must I not give nature all ; thy art, My gentle SHAKESPEARE, must enjoy a part. For though the poet's matter nature be, His art doth give the fashion : and, that he 278 Who casts to write a living line, must sweat, (Such as thine are) and strike the... 
