 | John William Stanhope Hows - English poetry - 1866 - 574 pages
...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...Or for the laurel, he may gain a scorn ; For a good poet's made as well as born. And such wert thou ! Look how the father's face Lives in his issue, even... | |
 | William Shakespeare - English drama - 1866 - 588 pages
...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...for the laurel, he may gain a scorn, — For a good poet's made, as well as born : And such wert thou. Look how the father's face Lives in his issue ;... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - 584 pages
...: — For though the poet's matter nature be, His art doth give the fashion : and that he Who oasts to write a living line, must sweat, (Such as thine...poet 's made, as well as born : And such wert thou." Having disposed, then, of these general considerations of the value of the quarto copies, we have to... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - 530 pages
...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),...for the laurel he may gain a scorn, — For a good poet's made as well as born : And such wert thou. Look how the father's face Lives in his issue ; even... | |
 | Nathaniel Holmes - 1867 - 636 pages
...the great poet had not been merely born, but made: — '• For a good poet 's made as well as bora, And such wert thou. Look, how the father's face Lives...his issue ; even so the race Of Shakespeare's mind arid manners brightly shines, In his well-turned and true-filed lines; In each of which he seems to... | |
 | Nathaniel Holmes - 1867 - 670 pages
..." spare or pass by a jest." Jonson also writes of " my gentle Shakespeare," — "that he Who casts to write a living line, must sweat, (Such as thine are) and strike the second heat Upon the Muses anvile." And so, according to the Dedication and Preface, " Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories,... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1868 - 570 pages
...part For though the poet's matter Nature be, 1 1 is art doth give the fashion : and that he Who casts to write a living line must sweat (Such as thine are),...gain a scorn, — For a good poet 's made as well as bom : And such wert thou." There can be no difficulty in understanding Jonson's dispraise of Shakspere,... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1868 - 578 pages
...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),...heat . • Upon the Muses' anvil : turn the same (And kimsclf with it) that he thinks to frame ; Or, for the laurel, he may gain a scorn, — For a good... | |
 | Cunningham Geikie - 1868 - 280 pages
...— 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 Muse's anvil ; turn the same, (And himself with it) that he thinks to frame ; Or, for the laurel, he... | |
 | Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1868 - 202 pages
...poetical art, saying that if the poet trust too much to the " poeta nascitur, rum fit " of Cicero, " For the laurel he may gain a scorn, For a good poet 's made as well as born." Wordsworth, too, has expressed himself most unequivocally on this subject : — " 0 many are the poeta... | |
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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 second... 
