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" 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 heat Upon the Muses... "
The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare - Page 476
by William Shakespeare - 1821
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Introductory Text-book of English Composition, Based on Grammatical Synthesis

Walter Scott Dalgleish - English language - 1872 - 274 pages
...thought Ben Jonson,—himself a thoroughly artistic poet,—who, speaking of Shakespeare, says that " Though the poet's matter Nature be, . His art doth give the fashion." He also gives warning against the neglect of the poetical art, saying that if the poet trust too much...
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Anthologia Anglica, a new selection from the English poets from Spenser to ...

Anthologia Anglica - 1873 - 512 pages
...Nature's family. Yet must I not give Nature all ; thy art, My gentle Shakspeare, must enjoy a part. For though the poet's matter Nature be, His art doth...may gain a scorn. For a good poet's made as well as torn. And such wert thou ! Look how the father's face Lives in his issue, even so the race Of Shakspeare's...
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The life of Shakspere by the editor

William Shakespeare - 1876 - 584 pages
...industry. " 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...to frame; Or, for the laurel, he may gain a scorn, — v ' For a good poet 's made, as well as born : \ '' And suck inert tJiou." i Having disposed, then,...
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The poems of Robert Greene, Christopher Marlowe, and Ben Jonson, ed., with ...

Robert Greene - 1876 - 576 pages
...nature's family. Yet must I not give nature all; thy art, My gentle Shakspeare, must enjoy a part. For though the poet's matter nature be, His art doth...as thine are) and strike the second heat Upon the Muse's anvil; turn the same, And himself with it, that he thinks to frame; Or for the laurel, he may...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - Authors, English - 1876 - 870 pages
...nature's family. Vet must I not give nature all ; thy art, My gentle Shakspeare, must enjoy a part. ld's riches, which dispersed lie, Contract into a span.' So strength first made a wa \Vho casts to write a living line, mast sweat — Such as thine are — and strike the second heat...
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Three centuries of English poetry: selections from Chaucer to Herrick, with ...

Rosaline Orme Masson - English poetry - 1876 - 460 pages
...Nature's family.. 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 1 Who casts to write a living line must sweat Such as thine are, and strike the second heat Upon the...
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Three Centuries of English Poetry: Being Selections from Chaucer to Herrick

Rosaline Orme Masson - English poetry - 1876 - 454 pages
...Nature's family. 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 he1 Who casts to write a living line must sweat Such as thine are, and strike the second heat Upon...
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Three centuries of English poetry: selections from Chaucer to Herrick, with ...

Rosaline Orme Masson - English poetry - 1876 - 454 pages
...Nature's family. 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 he1 Who casts to write a living line must sweat Such as thine are, and strike the second heat Upon...
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The Poems of Robert Greene, Christopher Marlowe, and Ben Jonson

Robert Greene, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson - English poetry - 1878 - 576 pages
...nature's family. Yet must I not give nature all ; thy art, My gentle Shakspeare, must enjoy a part. For though the poet's matter nature be, His art doth...as thine are) and strike the second heat Upon the Muse's anvil ; turn the same, And. himself with it, that he thinks to frame; Or for the laurel, he...
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Shakspeare and His Contemporaries: Together with the Plots of His Plays ...

William Tegg - 1879 - 290 pages
...of Nature's family. Yet must I not give Nature all; thy art My gentle Shakspeare must enjoy a part. For though the poet's matter Nature be, His art doth give the fashion; and that he, Who casts aright a living line, must sweat, (Such as thine are) and strike the second heat Upon the Muses' anvil;...
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