 | William Shakespeare - 1912 - 156 pages
...care not To get slips of them. POL. Wherefore, gentle maiden, Do you neglect them ? PER. For I have heard it said There is an art which in their piedness...better by no mean 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1912 - 542 pages
...care not To get slips of them. Pol. Wherefore, gentle maiden, Do you neglect them ? Per. For I have heard it said There is an art which, in their piedness,...better by no mean, But Nature makes that mean : so, over that art, 90 Which, you say, adds to Nature, is an art That Nature makes. You see, sweet maid,... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - Criticism - 1921 - 458 pages
...Polixenes, in the Winter's Tale, 15 to Perdita's neglect of the streaked gilly-flowers, because she had heard it said, There is an art which in their piedness...better by no mean, But Nature makes that mean; so, even that art Which you say adds to Nature is an art That Nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry... | |
 | Edward Walter Smithson - 1922 - 242 pages
...slips of them. Pol. : . . . Wherefore, gentle maiden, Do you neglect them ? Per. : . . . For I have heard it said There is an art which in their piedness...better by no mean, 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... | |
 | North American review - 1923 - 876 pages
...rebuke the cult of the natural in Perdita, who would not have in her garden a flower artificially bred: Yet nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes...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... | |
 | John Erskine - Literature - 1923 - 258 pages
...rebuke the cult of the natural in Perdita, who would not have in her garden a flower artificially bred: Yet nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes...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... | |
 | North American review - 1923 - 866 pages
...rebuke the cult of the natural in Perdita, who would not have in her garden a flower artificially bred: Yet nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes...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... | |
 | Edmund David Jones - Criticism - 1924 - 636 pages
...POLIXENES, in the Winter's Tale, to PERDITA'S neglect of the streaked gillyflowers, because she had heard it said : There is an art which, in their ....better by no mean, But nature makes that mean ; so, OV'H that art, Which, you say, adds to nature, is an art, That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we... | |
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Say there be; Yet nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes that mean: so, o'er 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... 
