 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 408 pages
...that art, Which, you say, adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You sec, sweet maid, we marr; A gentler scion to the wildest stock; And make conceive...— change it rather: but The art itself is nature. A GARLAND FOR MIDDLE-AGED MEN. I'll not put The dibble* in earth to set one slip of them; No more than,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 616 pages
...barren ; and I care not To get slips of them. POL. Wherefore, gentle maiden, Do you neglect them ? PEK. For I have heard it said, There is an art which, in...does mend nature,— change it rather : but • The modern reading is, Welcome, sir. " Gillyvon. Some of the old authors write gillyflower, some gillofre.... | |
 | Ekbert Faas - Art - 1986 - 244 pages
...self-realization of nature: Say there be; Yet Nature is made better by no mean But Nature makes that mean; so over art, Which you say adds to Nature, is an art, That...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 "orthodox" aesthetic... | |
 | Joseph Allen Bryant - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 300 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 - 357 pages
...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... | |
 | Takashi Suzuki, Tsuyoshi Mukai - Literary Collections - 1993 - 302 pages
...words of Polixenes towards Perdita (The Winter's Tale, IV. iv. 89-92)4: . . . nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes that mean: so, over 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 - 294 pages
...shares With great creating Nature. FOLIXENES: Say there be; Yet Nature is made better by no mean Bnt Nature makes that mean; so, o'ver that art, Which...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... | |
 | A. Dwight Baldwin, Judith De Luce, Carl Pletsch - Nature - 1994 - 294 pages
...heard it said There is an art, which in their piedness shares With great creating Nature. POLIXENHS: Say there be; Yet Nature is made better by no mean...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... | |
 | Pauline Kiernan - Drama - 1998 - 236 pages
...heard it said 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...- 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.... | |
 | Kenneth M. Price - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 392 pages
...through the consciousness of man. So declares Polixenes in A Winter's Tale:— "Nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes that mean; so, over that...— 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... | |
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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... 
