| William Shakespeare - 1788 - 318 pages
...they were not of Nature's family. , Yet must I not give nature all ; thy art, My gentle Shakspere, must enjoy a part : — For though the poet's matter...living line, must sweat (Such as thine are), and strike a second heat Upon the Muses' anvil ; turn the same (And himself with it), that he thinks to frame... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1804 - 256 pages
...Nature's family. Yet must 1 not give nature <?//; thy art,* My gentle Shakespeare must enjoy a part : Tor, though the Poet's matter Nature be, His art doth give...living line, must sweat, (Such as thine are) and strike a second healt Upon the Muses' anvil; turn the same, (And himself with it) that he thinks to frame... | |
| 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...a living line, must 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... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1809 - 390 pages
...Plautus, now not please; But antiquated and deserted lie, As they were not of Nature's family. Vet must I not give Nature all; thy art, My gentle Shakspeare,...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 laurel, he... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1809 - 394 pages
...other wit: •The merry Greek, tart Aristophanes, Neat Terence, witty Plautus, now not please •; But antiquated and deserted lie, As they were not...poet's matter nature be, His art doth give the fashion: ard that he, Who casts to write a living line, must sweat, (Such as thine are) and strike the second... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 746 pages
...vouchsafe DO other wit. The merry Greek, tart Aristophanes, Neat Terence, witty Plautus, now not please ; But antiquated and deserted lie, As they were not...Muse's anvil , turn the same, And himself with it, tbat he thinks to frame; Or for the laurel, he may gain a scorn, For a good poet's made, as well as... | |
| William Shakespeare, Capel Lofft - 1812 - 544 pages
...Yet must I not give Nature all; 'thy art. My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy apart:— - , ..- . Fer though the Poet's matter Nature be, His Art doth give...as thine are) and strike the second heat Upon the Muses' anvil ; turn the same, 1 (And himself with it) that he thinks to frame ; Or, for the laurel,... | |
| Ben Jonson, William Gifford - Dramatists, English - 1816 - 482 pages
...vouchsafe no other wit. The merry Greek, tart Aristophanes, Neat Terence, witty Plautus, now not please ; But antiquated and deserted lie, As they were not...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 laurel, he may... | |
| 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...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 laurel, he... | |
| Augustine Skottowe - Dramatists, English - 1824 - 402 pages
...bewitching friend, have been already noticed. 1 • Sonnets 18, 19,30 — 38. 39. 43. 47. ESSAYS. " Yet must I not give Nature all ; thy art, My gentle...matter nature be, His art doth give the fashion." BEX JONSON. KING JOHN. 1596.* IN the composition of his English historical plays, Shakspeare usually... | |
| |