 | 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.... | |
 | Claude J. Summers, Ted-Larry Pebworth - History - 1995 - 254 pages
...that mean; so over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. . . . . . . This is an art Which does mend nature — change it rather; but The art itself, is nature. (4.4.89-92, 95-97)23 Despite the dangers inherent in wit for the Christian poet,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1995 - 164 pages
...gender scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race.85 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 call... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Stanley Wells - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 438 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. (4.4.90-7) The relevance of his remarks to the actual dramatic situation is apparent,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | L. T. Evans - Business & Economics - 1998 - 268 pages
...Tale, when Perdita spurns the hybrid carnations 'which some call nature's bastards', Polixenes replies 'This is an art which does mend nature - change it rather - but the art itself is nature'. In early maize crops that art was indeed natural, given both the openpollinated... | |
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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 Which... 
