 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 Who casts to write a living line must sweat (Such as thine are) and strike the second...  Poetry of the English Renaissance 1509-1660 - Page 510edited by - 1929 - 1068 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1788 - 316 pages
...his lines ; Which were so richly spun, and woven so fit, As, since, she will vouchsafe no other wit : The merry Greek, tart Aristophanes, Neat Terence,...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1804 - 256 pages
...Poem is, in general, Fiiff and uncouth; yet we perceive great sincerity and warmth of praise in it. The merry Greek, tart Aristophanes, Neat Terence,...lie, As they were not of Nature's family. Yet must 1 not give nature <?//; thy art,* My gentle Shakespeare must enjoy a part : Tor, though the Poet's... | |
 | Octavius Gilchrist - 1808 - 74 pages
...tart Aristophanes, Neat Terence, witty Plautus, now not please ; A little nearer Spenser; to make room But antiquated and deserted lie, As they were not...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 394 pages
...his lines; \\1iich were so richly spun, and woven so fit, As, since, she will vouchsafe no other wit: •The merry Greek, tart Aristophanes, Neat Terence,...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 390 pages
...his lines; Which were so richly spun, and woven so fit, As, since, she will vouchsafe no other wit: The merry Greek, tart Aristophanes, Neat Terence,...deserted lie, As they were not of Nature's family. Vet must I not give Nature all; thy art, My gentle Shakspeare, must enjoy a part:*— For, though the... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 748 pages
...his lines ! Which were so richly spun, and woven so fit, As since, she will vouchsafe DO other wit. The merry Greek, tart Aristophanes, Neat Terence,...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.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1812 - 542 pages
...Thought more nigh To learned Cliaucer; and Tare Beaumont fie A h'tlf nearer Speosf r ; to make ronni But antiquated and deserted lie, ', .'.-•» As they...Nature all; 'thy art. My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy apart:— - , ..- . Fer though the Poet's matter Nature be, His Art doth give the fashion : and that... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - Dramatists, English - 1816 - 482 pages
...his lines ! Which were so richly spun, and woven so fit, As, since, she will vouchsafe no other wit. The merry Greek, tart Aristophanes, Neat Terence,...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Theater - 1821 - 668 pages
...his lines ; Which were so richly spun, and woven so fit, As, since, she will vouchsafe no other wit: The merry Greek, tart Aristophanes, Neat Terence,...Yet must I not give Nature all ; thy art, My gentle Shakspeare, must enjoy a part': — Marlowe's having trod the stage. He was stabbed in the street,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 676 pages
...Drummond of Hawthornden in 1619, said, that Shakspeare " wanted art, and sometimes sense." MALONE. For though the poet's matter nature be, His art doth...sweat, (Such 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... | |
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