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. Complete Rhetoric - Page 4by Alfred Hix Welsh - 1885 - 346 pagesFull view - About this book
| John J. Waller - 1882 - 196 pages
...joyed to wear the dressing of his lines! 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 .... Look, how the father's face Lives in his issue, even so the race Of Shakspere's mind and manners... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1883 - 1164 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...sweat, (Such as thine are,) and strike the second heal Upon the muses' anvil ; turn the same, 'Ami himself vvitb it,) that he thinks to frame ; Or for... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1883 - 562 pages
...As they were not of Nature's family. Yet must I not give Nature all ; thy Art, My gentle Shakspeare, must enjoy a part. For though the poet's matter Nature be, His Art doth give the fashion : and. that ho Who casts to write a living line, must sweat, (Such as thine are) and strike the second heat GO... | |
| Georg Gottfried Gervinus - 1883 - 1020 pages
...they were not of Nature's family. Yet must I not giue Nature all : Thy Art, My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a part. For though the Poet's matter Nature be, His Art doth giue the fashion . . . For a good Poet's made, as well as borne. And such wert thou. Looke, how the... | |
| Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1883 - 156 pages
...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 tho poet trust top much... | |
| James L. Calderwood - 1971 - 206 pages
...extrorsing to present itself 4 The distinction is brought out more obviously in the succeeding two lines, "For though the Poet's matter, Nature be,/ His Art doth give the fashion," which are of course from Jonson's eulogy to Shakespeare printed as part of the front matter to the... | |
| Ronald L. Dotterer - 1989 - 252 pages
...better understanding of the craftsmanship of the great dramatic poet whose art Ben Jonson praised: "For though the poet's matter nature be, / His art doth give the fashion." In this essay I discuss some of Shakespeare's dramaturgical decisions and procedures in King Lear.... | |
| James G. McManaway - 1990 - 442 pages
...weare the dressing of his lines! . . . Yet must I not giue Nature all : Thy Art, My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a part. For though the Poet's matter, Nature be, His Art doth giue the fashion. . . . For a good Poet's made, as well as borne. And such wert thou.8 Notes on Act... | |
| Edith P. Hazen - 1992 - 1172 pages
...an age, but for all time! (1. 38) 45 Yet must I not give Nature all; thy art, My gentle Shakespeare, lies Under Jonson POETRY QUOTATIONS Who casts to write a living line, must sweat (Such as thine are) and strike... | |
| Ann Bermingham, John Brewer - 1995 - 668 pages
...apotheosis. Indeed, Jonson's highest praise of Shakespeare is the sort of praise he sought for himself: 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. Look how the father's face Lives... | |
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