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" 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 heat Upon the Muses... "
The Works of Shakespeare: Collated with the Oldest Copies, and Corrected - Page xii
by William Shakespeare - 1773
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - Authors, English - 1876 - 870 pages
...they were not of nature's family. Vet must I not give nature all ; thy art, My gentle Shakspeare, must ; Let the world's riches, which dispersed lie, Contract into a span.' So s fashion ; and, that he \Vho casts to write a living line, mast sweat — Such as thine are — and...
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Three centuries of English poetry: selections from Chaucer to Herrick, with ...

Rosaline Orme Masson - English poetry - 1876 - 454 pages
...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 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...
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The poems of Robert Greene, Christopher Marlowe, and Ben Jonson, ed., with ...

Robert Greene - 1876 - 576 pages
...they were not 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 to write a living line, must sweat, (Such as thine are) and strike...
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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
...they were not 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 to write a living line, must sweat, (Such as thine are) and strike...
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Shakspeare and His Contemporaries: Together with the Plots of His Plays ...

William Tegg - Literary Criticism - 1879 - 290 pages
...they were not 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...
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The Poetical Works of William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, Volumes 1-2

William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson - English poetry - 1879 - 844 pages
...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 poet's matter nature be, His art doth give the fashion : and, that he Wrho casts to write a living line, must 'sweat, (Such as thine are) and strike...
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Shakespeare's Centurie of Prayse: Being Materials for a History of Opinion ...

Clement Mansfield Ingleby, Lucy Toulmin Smith - 1879 - 518 pages
...witty Plautus, now not pleafe ; But antiquated and deferted lye As they were not of Natures family. Yet muft I not give Nature all : Thy Art, My gentle Shakefpeare, muft eujoy a part. For though the Poets matter, Nature be, His Art doth give the faftiion. And, that he,...
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On Renascence Drama: Or, History Made Visible

William Thomson - Authors, English - 1880 - 382 pages
...fashioned. Better than common wonderers, Jonson feels he cannot give Nature more than her due;. art 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...
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The English Poets: Selections, Volume 2

Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1880 - 524 pages
...they were not 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 he1 Who casts to write a living line, must sweat (Such as thine are) and strike...
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Gems of national poetry. Compiled and ed. by mrs. Valentine

Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 pages
...they were not 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 to write a living line, must sweat (Such as thine are) and strike...
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