 | Octavius Gilchrist - 1808 - 74 pages
...had a strife With nature, to out-do the life. O, could he but have drawn his wit As well in brass, *; he hath hit His face, the print would then surpass...writ in brass; But since he cannot, reader, look, Co tfje e©emorj? of MY BELOVED, THE AUTHOR, MR. WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE, AND WHAT HE HATH LEFT US. To draw... | |
 | John Walker - 1811 - 574 pages
...Shakespeare cut; In which the graver had a strife With nature, to out-do the life. O could he but have drawn his wit As well in brass as he hath hit His face, the piece would then surpass All that was ever writ in brass. But since he cannot, &c. BJ In these verses... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Capel Lofft - 1812 - 544 pages
...Shakespeare cut ; Wherein tin- graver had a strife With nature, to outdo the life. O, could he but have drawn his wit As well in brass, as he hath hit His...cannot, reader look, Not on his picture, but his book.' B. f . 3Co tfje £l?t mor;> of MT BELOVED, THE AUTHOR, MR, WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE*, And -what he hath... | |
 | John Walker - 1814 - 566 pages
...Shakespeare cut; in whichdhe graver had a strife With nature, to out-do the life. O could he but have drawn his wit As well in brass as he hath hit His...cannot, reader, look Not on his picture, but his book. BJ as be has clone his face, the performance would have been preferable to every thing of the kind;... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1816 - 832 pages
...Shakspeare cut; Wherein the graver had a strife With Nature to out-do the life. O could he but have drawn his wit As well in brass as he hath hit His...in brass ; But since he cannot, reader, look Not on bis Picture but his Book.] Of the portrait, thus authenticated, Mr.Britton says, "It would not be diffi-'... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - Dramatists, English - 1816 - 482 pages
...strife With nature, to out-do the life : O could he but have drawn his wit As well in brass, as he has hit His face ; the print would then surpass All that...cannot, reader, look Not on his picture, but his book.' * I have thought it best to interrupt the arrangement of the old folio, in this place, for tha sake... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 728 pages
...but have drawn his wit ' As well in brass, as he hath hit ' His face, the print would then surpass 4 All that was ever writ in brass ; ' But since he cannot,...reader, look ' Not on his picture, but his book." Droeshout engraved also the heads of John Fox the martyrologist, Montjoy Blount, son of Charles Blount... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 740 pages
...Shakspeare cut ; " Wherein the graver had a strife " With nature, to out-do the life. " O, could he but have drawn his wit " As well in brass, as he hath hit " His face, the print would then surpass n All that was ever writ in brass ; " But since he cannot, reader, look " Not on his picture, but his... | |
 | Augustine Skottowe - 1824 - 708 pages
...Shakspeare cut ; Wherein the graver had a strife With nature, to out-do the life. O, could he but have drawn his wit As well in brass, as he hath hit His...cannot, reader, look Not on his picture, but his book." Without the reader has had the misfortune to behold this much eulogised specimen of the graphic art,... | |
 | Augustine Skottowe - Dramatists, English - 1824 - 402 pages
...Shakspeare cut ; Wherein the graver had a strife With nature, to out-do the life. O, could he but have drawn his wit As well in brass, as he hath hit His...cannot, reader, look Not on his picture, but his book." Without the reader has had the misfortune to behold this much eulogised specimen of the graphic art,... | |
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This figure that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut, Wherein the graver had a strife With nature, to out-do the life. O, could he but have drawn his wit As well in brass as he hath hit His face — the print would then surpass All... 
