 This figure that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut, Wherein the graver had a strife With nature, to out-do the life. O, could he but have drawn his wit As well in brass as he hath hit His face — the print would then surpass All...  The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature - Sida 3341808Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Anonymous - 1865 - 602 sidor
...Shakspeare's Portrait :' — ' O could he bat have drawn his wit As well in brass, as he has hit t His face, the print would then surpass All that was ever writ in brass.' 1 Leporem venator nt alta In nive sectetnr, positum sic tangere iitflit : Cantat et apponit ; — meus... | |
 | Emmeline Lott - 1865 - 406 sidor
...Ismael Pacha cut; Wherein the graver had a strife With Nature to outdo the life : O could he but have drawn his wit As well in brass, as he hath hit His face, the portrait would then surpass All that was ever writ in brass : But since he cannot, reader, look Not... | |
 | 1865 - 792 sidor
...Gentle Shakspeare cut.' 1 0 ! could he but have drawn hie wit As well in brass as he hath hit Ilis face ; the print would then surpass All that was ever writ in brass.' To these follow lines ' to the memory of my beloved author,' by Ben Jonson ; ' Upon the lines and life... | |
 | 1865 - 600 sidor
...Jonson on ' Shakspeare's Portrait:'— 4 O could he but have drawn his wit As well in brass, as he has hit His face, the print would then surpass All that was ever writ iu brass.' ' Leporem venator nt aM In nivc sectetur, positum sic tnngere nolit: Cantat et apponit;—meus... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1866 - 574 sidor
...Shakespeare cut, Wherein the graver had a strife With nature, to outdo the life : O could he but have drawn his wit, As well in brass, as he hath hit His...cannot, reader, look Not on his picture, but his book. ©corgc tUttl)cr. CHRISTMAS. OO now is come our joyful'st feast ; ^ Let every man be jolly; Each room... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1866 - 418 sidor
...cut ; Wherein the graver '•ad a strife With nature to outdo the life. O, could he but have drawne his wit As well in brass as he hath hit His face,...was ever writ in brass : But since he cannot, reader looke Not on his picture but his booke." Queen Elizabeth used sometimes to sit behind the scenes, while... | |
 | John Wien Forney - 1867 - 420 sidor
...Shakspeare cut; Wherein the graver had a strife With nature to outdo the life. Oh 1 could he but have drawn his wit As well in brass as he hath hit His...would then surpass All that was ever Writ in brass; Bat since he cannot, reader, look Not on his picture, but his book. Yet, if all mortal testimony were... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - 584 sidor
...strife With Nature, to outdo the life: O, could he hut have drawn his wit As well in brass, as he had hit His face, the print would then surpass All that was ever writ in brass. But, yince he cannot, Reader, look Not on his Picture, but his Book." — BJ Under these circumstances we... | |
 | Epigrammatists - 1870 - 654 sidor
...engraving in the first edition of the Plays. 0 could he but have drawn his wit As well in brass, as he has hit His face ; the print would then surpass All that...cannot, reader, look Not on his picture, but his book. Addison, in his Ode to Sir Godfrey Knellcr, on his picture of the king, pays a similar compliment to... | |
 | Henry Philip Dodd - 1870 - 652 sidor
...strife, With natuio to outdo the lite. 0 could he but have drawn his wit As well in brass, as he has hit His face ; the print would then surpass All that...cannot, reader, look Not on his picture, but his book. Addison, in hia Ode to Sir Godfrey Knellcr, on his picture of Uie king, pays a similar compliment to... | |
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