| Estelle Davenport Adams - English poetry - 1894 - 432 pages
...will vouchsafe no other wit. . . 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... | |
| Lady Strachey (Jane Maria) - English poetry - 1894 - 376 pages
...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 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... | |
| Kenyon West - Literary Criticism - 1895 - 614 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 Who casts to write a living line, must sweat — Such as thine are — and strike... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - English poetry - 1895 - 530 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 1 Who casts to write a living line, must sweat (Such as thine are) and strike... | |
| James G. McManaway - Drama - 1994 - 64 pages
...the dressing of his lines! . . . 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. . . . For a good poet's made, as well as born. And such wert thou. [Ben Jonson, "To the Memory... | |
| James G. McManaway - 1990 - 442 pages
...dressing of his lines! . . . Yet must I not giue Nature all : Thy Art, My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a part. For though the Poet's matter, Nature be, His Art doth giue the fashion. . . . For a good Poet's made, as well as borne. And such wert thou.8 Notes on Act... | |
| Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...age, but for all time! (1. 38) 45 Yet must I not give Nature all; thy art, My gentle Shakespeare, must lies Under fashion; and, that he Jonson POETRY QUOTATIONS Who casts to write a living line, must sweat (Such as... | |
| Michael Hattaway - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 800 pages
...Shakespeare as reviser and improver: 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... | |
| William Shakespeare - Drama - 1989 - 1286 pages
...they were not of Nature's family. Yet must I not give Nature all; thy art, My gentle Shakespeare, must 6>C. SCENE — Messina. ACT I. SCENE I. Before LEONATO' s house. Enter LEON fashion; and that he Who casts to write a living line, must sweat, — Such as thine are, — and strike... | |
| Carol Dommermuth-Costa - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2001 - 120 pages
...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 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... | |
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