 | William Darlington - Botany - 1847 - 342 pages
...: " You see, We marry " A gentler scion to the wildest stock ; " And make conceive, a bark of baser kind " By bud of nobler race : This is an art " which...mend nature, — change it rather : but " The art itself is nature." [Winter's Tale. Act 4. т fW ROSACE AE 43 fleshy, clothed with a soft velvety pubescence... | |
 | Joseph Allen Bryant - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 300 pages
...You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock. And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race. This is an art Which does mend Nature — change it rather; but The art itself is Nature. [V,iv.92-97] In Polixenes' mind, of course, Perdita is the "bark of baser kind" destined... | |
 | Ekbert Faas - Art - 1986 - 244 pages
...You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race. This is an art Which does mend Nature, change it rather, but The art itself is Nature, (iv.iv) It is distorting the facts to say that these words voice no more than an... | |
 | Frederick Burwick - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 357 pages
...You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race: this is an art Which does mend 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,... | |
 | A. Dwight Baldwin, Judith De Luce, Carl Pletsch - Nature - 1994 - 294 pages
...You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind by bud of nobler race. This is an art Which does mend Nature, change it rather; but The art itself is Nature. (4.4.83-97) We find similar ideas in other great Renaissance aesthetic theorists... | |
 | Takashi Suzuki, Tsuyoshi Mukai - Literary Collections - 1993 - 302 pages
...You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race. This is an art Which does mend nature. . . change it rather, but The art itself, is nature. Hamlet' s words should be taken as emphasising that 'Nature' makes 'an arf in drama.... | |
 | Kenneth M. Price - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 392 pages
...You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock; And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race: This is an art Which does mend nature — 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.... | |
 | Pauline Kiernan - Drama - 1998 - 236 pages
...You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race. This is an art Which does mend nature - change it rather - but The art itself is nature. Perdita. So it is. Polixenes. Then make your garden rich in gillyvors, And do not... | |
 | Cheryll Glotfelty, Harold Fromm - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 466 pages
...You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race. This is an art Which does mend 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... | |
 | Northrop Frye, Professor Robert D Denham - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 592 pages
...You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race: this is an art Which does mend 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... | |
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But nature makes that mean : so, over 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 By bud of nobler race : this is an art... 
