 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 By bud of nobler race: this is an art...  THE DRAMATIC WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE - Page 651850Full view - About this book
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1854
...Which you say adds to nature, is an art, That nature makes ; yon see, sweet maid, we marry A gentle scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark...nature, change it rather; but The art itself is nature. Perdita. — So it is. Polix. — Then make your garden rich in gilliuowers, And do not call them bastards.... | |
 | F. O. Matthiessen - Literary Criticism - 1968 - 720 pages
...nature, is an art That nature makes. You see. sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest itock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler...nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature. Years later Melville was to triple-score, in Arnold's essay on Spinoza, the philosopher's statement... | |
 | Joseph Allen Bryant - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 270 pages
...understand, an application of his argument that will support her marriage to his son as prince of the realm: You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the...— 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 to be made... | |
 | Frederick Burwick - Literary Criticism - 2010
...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... | |
 | Shunʼichi Noguchi, Takashi Suzuki, Tsuyoshi Mukai - Literary Collections - 1993 - 273 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 - 280 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 - 415 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... | |
 | Kenneth M. Price - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 356 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... | |
 | Pauline Kiernan - Drama - 1998 - 218 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.... | |
 | Northrop Frye, Professor Robert D Denham - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 557 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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