 | John William Stanhope Hows - English poetry - 1866 - 574 pages
...they were not of nature's family. Yet must I not give nature all ; thy art, My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a part. For though the poet's matter nature...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 - 1867 - 530 pages
...they were not of Nature's family. Yet must I not give Nature all : thy art, My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a part For though the poet's matter nature...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... | |
 | Ebenezer Forsyth - 1867 - 148 pages
...must I not give Nature all ; thy Art, My gentle Shakspeare, must enjoy a part : For though the Poets matter, Nature be, His Art doth give the fashion....sweat (Such as thine are) and strike the second heat K Upon the Muses anvile : turne the same, (And himselfe with it) that he thinkes to frame ; Or, for... | |
 | Nathaniel Holmes - 1867 - 636 pages
...could with difficulty " spare or pass by a jest." Jonson also writes of " my gentle Shakespeare," — "that he Who casts to write a living line, must sweat,...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,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - 584 pages
...by the most diligent industry. *' Yet must I not give Nature all ; thy art, My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a part : — For though the poet's matter...be, His art doth give the fashion : and that he Who oasts to write a living line, must sweat, (Such as thine are,) and strike the second heat Upon the... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1868 - 570 pages
...without method. Jonson'a own testimony, delivered five years after the conversation with Drummond, offers the most direct evidence against such a construction...sweat (Such as thine are), and strike the second heat * • The Pocbuter," Act T. Sc. I. t Book viii. ch. ip 369. Upon the Muses' anvil : turn the same (And... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1868 - 578 pages
...such a construction of his expression : — " Yet must I not give Nature all : thy art, Jly genlle Shakspere, must enjoy a part. For though the poet's...sweat (Such as thine are), and strike the second heat * ' The Poetaster,' Act V. Sc. i. t Book viii. ch. ip 369. Upon the Muses' anvil : turn the same (And... | |
 | Cunningham Geikie - 1868 - 280 pages
...think of Shakspeare as the ideal of spontaneous Genius, but notice Ben Jonson's lines about him : — For though the Poet's matter, Nature be, His Art doth...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... | |
 | Class-book - Literature - 1869 - 344 pages
...Greek comic writer, born 444 BC ^Terence, born 195 BC, and Platuus, born 254 BC, Roman comic poe!s. For though the poet's matter nature be, His art doth...second heat Upon the Muses' anvil ; turn the same, 45 And himself with it, that he thinks to frame ; Or for the laurel, he may gain a scorn ; For a good... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1875 - 656 pages
...Nature's family. Yet must I not give Nature all : thy art, My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a part: K >r, though the poet's matter nature be, His art doth give...for the laurel, he may gain a scorn, — For a good poet's made, as well as horn : And such wert thou. Look, how the father's face Lives in his issue ;... | |
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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... 
