 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...  The Dramatic Works of Shakspeare: In Six Volumes - Page 630by William Shakespeare, Joseph Rann - 1787Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - 568 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 gilliflowers, And do not call them... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1839 - 374 pages
...ignorance, but behold him with as much pity as I do Lazarus. And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bufl of nobler race. This is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather; but The art itself is nature. Winter's Tale. Natural History is subject to a thieefold division. For nature is... | |
 | August Wilhelm von Schlegel - 1840 - 434 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. Winter's Tale, Act iv. Scene 3. Shakspeare does not here mean to institute a comparison... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1841 - 394 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 gillyflowers, And do not call them... | |
 | Ekbert Faas - 1986 - 244 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) It is distorting the facts to say that these words voice no more than an... | |
 | Joseph Allen Bryant - 1986 - 300 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. [V,iv.92-97] In Polixenes' mind, of course, Perdita is the "bark of baser kind" destined... | |
 | Frederick Burwick - 2010 - 357 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.89-97) Aware of his son's attraction to a shepherd's daughter, King Polixenes,... | |
 | Takashi Suzuki, Tsuyoshi Mukai - 1993 - 302 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. Hamlet' s words should be taken as emphasising that 'Nature' makes 'an arf in drama.... | |
 | A. Dwight Baldwin, Judith De Luce, Carl Pletsch - 1994 - 294 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. (4.4.83-97) We find similar ideas in other great Renaissance aesthetic theorists... | |
 | Cheryll Glotfelty, Harold Fromm - 1996 - 466 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. As usual, Shakespeare says it all: the subtext here is that Perdita is a base shepherdess... | |
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