 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...  Notes and Queries - Sida 71893Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Stephen Orgel, Sean Keilen - 1999 - 356 sidor
...as it were, to spare Shakespeare the implication that his greatness could proceed from Nature alone: Yet must I not give Nature all: Thy Art, My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a part. For though the Poets matter, Nature be, His Art doth give the fashion. And, that he, Who casts to write a living line,... | |
 | Michael Hattaway - 2002 - 800 sidor
...art'.8 In contrast, Jonson's elegy goes out of its way to emphasize Shakespeare as reviser and improver: Yet must I not give nature all: thy art, My gentle...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 heat... | |
 | Ed. de Grazia - 2001 - 352 sidor
...the same poem 'small Latin and less Greek', he adds to his gift of nature the accomplishments of art: Yet must I not give nature all: thy art, My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a part. In Jonson's 1619 conversation with William Drummond of Hawthornden, he put his viewpoint much less... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1989 - 1286 sidor
...w;tty Plautus, now not please; But antiquated and deserted le, As they were not of Nature's family. ML*"' } gen*lew°me" Bending on Hero. MESSENGERS,...I. Before LEONATO' s house. Enter LEONATO, HERO, an that he Who casts to write a living line, must sweat, — Such as thine are, — and strike the second... | |
 | Carol Dommermuth-Costa - 2001 - 120 sidor
...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...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 heat... | |
 | Ilya Gililov - 2003 - 502 sidor
...witty Plautus, now not please; But antiauated, and deserted lie As they were not ofnature'sfamily. Yet must I not give nature all: thy art, My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy apart. For though the poet's matter, naturebe, His art doth give the fashion. And, that he, Who casts... | |
 | Peter Dawkins - 2004 - 481 sidor
...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 Shakespeare, must enjoy a part. For though the Poets matter, Nature be, His Art doth give the fashion. And that he Who calls to write a living line,... | |
 | Scott McCrea - 2005 - 310 sidor
...the "Soul of the Age!" of the commendatory verses. In fact, it's a direct contradiction of the lines, Yet must I not give Nature all: Thy Art, My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a part. For though the Poets matter, Nature be, His Art doth give the fashion. And, that he, Who casts to write a living line,... | |
 | G. M. Pinciss - 2005 - 214 sidor
..."nature's family" through vivid language and dramatize his material in carefully crafted works of art: "For though the poet's matter Nature be,/ His Art doth give the fashion." Jonson was thinking not only of the extraordinary range of characters in Shakespeare's comedies and... | |
 | Freeman Dyson - 2006 - 396 sidor
...Nature herself was proud of his designs And joyed to wear the dressing of his lines — 'Yet I must not give Nature all: thy art, My gentle Shakespeare,...part, For though the poet's matter nature be, His art does give the fashion; and, that he Who casts to write a living line, must sweat, . . . For a good... | |
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