 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...  Studies in Shakespeare, Bibliography, and Theatre - Page 208by James G. McManaway - 1990 - 417 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - English drama (Comedy) - 1872 - 480 pages
...puts this point just as, we may be sure, he had himself seen it to be true : " Yet must I not give Nature all ; thy art, My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a part : For a good poet 's made, as well as born ; And such wert thou." As to the question how far his genius went... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - Dramatists, English - 1816 - 482 pages
...they were not of nature's family. Yet must I not give nature all ; thy art, My gentle Shakspeare,* 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... | |
 | 1824 - 762 pages
...and circumstances of his stories. " Yet must I not give Nature all ; thy art, My gentle Shakspeare, must enjoy a part : — For though the poet's matter nature be, His art doth give the fashion." Shakspeare invaded the territories of others with a monarch's power, and that which... | |
 | Augustine Skottowe - Dramatists, English - 1824 - 402 pages
...19,30 — 38. 39. 43. 47. ESSAYS. " Yet must I not give Nature all ; thy art, My gentle Shakspeare, must enjoy a part : — For though the poet's matter nature be, His art doth give the fashion." BEX JONSON. KING JOHN. 1596.* IN the composition of his English historical plays,... | |
 | Augustine Skottowe - 1824 - 708 pages
...19,20 — 32. 39. 43. 47. ESS AY S. " Yet must I not give Nature all ; thy art, My gentle Shakspeare, must enjoy a part : — For though the poet's matter nature be, His art doth give the fashion." Bzx JONSON. KING JOHN. 1596.' IN the composition of his English historical plays,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 544 pages
...As they were not of Nature's family. Yet must I not give Nature all : thy art, My gentle Shakspeare, 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 548 pages
...As they were not of Nature's family. Yet must 1 not give Nature all : thy art, My gentle Shakspeare, 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1836 - 570 pages
...As they were not of Nature's family. Yet must I not give Nature all : thy art, My gentle Shakspeare, these things to pass ? O, how mine eyes do loathe his visage now! Obe give the fashion. And that he Who casts to write a living line, must sweat, (Such as thine are) and... | |
 | Charles Armitage Brown - Autobiography in literature - 1838 - 326 pages
...his "beloved" friend's persevering energies in arriving at excellence in art : " Yet must I not give nature all: thy art, My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1844 - 600 pages
...As they were not of Nature's family. Yet must I not give Nature all ; thy art, My gentle Shakspeare, 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... | |
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