 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...  The Quarterly Review - Page 94edited by - 1890Full view - About this book
 | Sir Edward Strachey - 1848 - 116 pages
...themselves. As Ben Jonson says — 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.• Look how the father's face Lives in his issue ; even so the race Of Shakspeare's mind and manners brightly... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1893 - 642 pages
...the idea or matter, to the comparative disregard of the manner." Ben Jonson did not think so : — " Yet must I not give Nature all, thy art my gentle...matter, nature be. His art doth give the fashion." And he goes on to point out that Shakespeare's "mind and manners brightly shine in his wellturned and true-filed... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1849 - 574 pages
...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 Shakespeare, muH enjoy а part. For though the poet's matter Nature be, His art doth give the fashion : and that... | |
 | 1852 - 1228 pages
...the ancients, thus writes of him : " Yet must I not give Nature all ; thy Art, My gentle Shakspeare, must enjoy a part ; For though the poet's matter nature...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,)... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1853 - 442 pages
...witty Plautus, 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...be, His art doth give the fashion ; and that he, Who easts to write a living line, must sweat, (Such as thine are) and strike the second heat Upon the muses'... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1853 - 1158 pages
...; thy art, Por though the poet's matter nature be, My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a part : Plis ed to be supported and carried by another person to a table, at which he was seated am Upon the muses' anvil ; turn the same, (Such as thine are) and strike the second heat (And himself... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1855 - 1088 pages
...Plautus, now not please; But antiquated and deserted lie, As they were not of Nature's family. Yet muet I not give Nature all ; thy art, My gentle Shakespeare,...part: For though the poet's matter nature be, His ait doth give tho fashion ; and that he, Ixxix (Such as thine nre) and strike the second heat Upon... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1856 - 800 pages
...poet's study : — ' Yet must I not give Nature all : thy art, My gentle Shakspere, must enjoy a paît. For though the poet's matter Nature be, His art doth give the fashion ; ami, that he Who casts to write a living line, must sweat (Suchas thine are) and strike the second... | |
 | William Henry Smith - Catholics - 1857 - 188 pages
...witty Plautus, now not please ; But antiquated, and deserted lye As they were not of Nature's family. Yet must I not give Nature all : Thy Art, My gentle...to write a living line, must sweat, (Such as thine arc) and strike the second heat Upon the Muses' anvile : turne the same, (And himselfe with it) that... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 666 pages
...witty Plautus, 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...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... | |
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