 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 766 pages
...adds to nature, is an art, That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we jaarfy A gentler scion to tfif wildest stock ; And make conceive a bark of baser...change it rather ; but The art itself is nature."* Secondly, I argue from the effects of metre. As far as metre acts in and for itself, it fends to increase... | |
 | Wisconsin State Agricultural Society - Agriculture - 1854 - 528 pages
...scholar of nature,' who seems tohave had an intuitive perception of all natural truths : "You see, -we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And...of baser kind By bud of nobler race. This is an art \\hich does uieud nature." It mends nature in this respect, that it transfers the young swarm of budsfrom... | |
 | 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...nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature. (IV.iv.89-97) Aware of his son's attraction to a shepherd's daughter, King Polixenes, in his botanical... | |
 | Stanley Cavell - Philosophy - 1994 - 214 pages
...question would seem to be some forbidden degree of consanguinity. In Polixenes' statement to Perdita, You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the...conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race. (4.4.92^95) (which names the convention of grafting as what marriage is, marriage of different stocks... | |
 | 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.... change it rather, but The art itself, is nature. Hamlet' s words should be taken as emphasising that 'Nature' makes 'an arf in drama. If Art itself... | |
 | 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...Nature, change it rather; but The art itself is Nature. (4.4.83-97) We find similar ideas in other great Renaissance aesthetic theorists — the architects... | |
 | 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...Nature, change it rather; but The art itself is Nature. As usual, Shakespeare says it all: the subtext here is that Perdita is a base shepherdess who wants... | |
 | 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...- change it rather - but The art itself is nature. Perdita. So it is. Polixenes. Then make your garden rich in gillyvors, And do not call them bastards.... | |
 | 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...— change it rather: but The art itself is nature." Whitman has not failed to perceive this truth, but he fears that it may be abused. Meddling with nature... | |
 | Northrop Frye, Professor Robert D Denham - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 592 pages
...the NFF, 1991, box 37,file 9. 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...Nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature. Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale [4.4.89—971 Nearly all the deeper questions dealt with by modern philosophers... | |
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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... 
