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" Yet nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes that mean: so, o'er 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... "
The Beauties of Shakspeare Regularly Selected from Each Play. With a General ... - Page 70
by William Shakespeare - 1827 - 345 pages
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Dramatic Works: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens and Reed; with ..., Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1852 - 550 pages
...them ? Per. Fort I have heard it said, There is an art, which, in their piedness, shares With great creating nature.! Pol. Say, there be ; Yet nature...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...
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Nietzsche, Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist

Walter Kaufmann - Philosophy - 1974 - 556 pages
...you not do that?" (J 9). Thus Nietzsche agreed with the view developed in The Winter's Tale (1v, 3): Yet nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes...say, adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. . . . The art itself is nature. that he differed with Christianity on the question of the continuity...
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Coleridge's Aesthetics

Vinayak Krishna Gokak - Aesthetics, British - 1975 - 84 pages
...Polixenes : Say ther e be; Yet nature is made better by no mean But nature makes that mean; so, o'ver that art, Which, you say, adds to nature, is an art,...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...
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Tragedy and After: Euripides, Shakespeare, Goethe

Ekbert Faas - Art - 1986 - 244 pages
...self-realization of nature: Say there be; Yet Nature is made better by no mean But Nature makes that mean; so over art, Which you say adds to Nature, is an art, That...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...
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Illusion and the Drama: Critical Theory of the Enlightenment and Romantic Era

Frederick Burwick - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 357 pages
...complicated it. Schlegel refers to a passage from The Winter's Tale: Yet nature is made better by no mean, Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature...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...
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Beyond Preservation: Restoring and Inventing Landscapes

A. Dwight Baldwin, Judith De Luce, Carl Pletsch - Nature - 1994 - 294 pages
...FOLIXENES: Say there be; Yet Nature is made better by no mean Bnt Nature makes that mean; so, o'ver that art, Which you say adds to Nature, is an art...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...
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Arthurian and Other Studies: Presented to Shunichi Noguchi

Takashi Suzuki, Tsuyoshi Mukai - Literary Collections - 1993 - 302 pages
...Tale, IV. iv. 89-92)4: . . . nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes that mean: so, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That...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,...
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The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology

Cheryll Glotfelty, Harold Fromm - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 466 pages
...PERDITA . . . There is an art, which in their piedness shares With great creating Nature. POLIXENES Say there be; Yet Nature is made better by no mean...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...
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Shakespeare's Theory of Drama

Pauline Kiernan - Drama - 1998 - 236 pages
...Polixenes. Say there be; Yet nature is made better by no mean But nature makes that mean: so, over that art, Which you say adds to nature, is an art...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...
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Walt Whitman: The Contemporary Reviews

Kenneth M. Price - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 392 pages
...Polixenes in A Winter's Tale:— "Nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes that mean; so, over that art, Which, you say, adds to nature, is an art...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...
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