 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
 | Sidney Lanier - English fiction - 1883 - 312 pages
...Nature all : thy art, (Meaning here thy technic, thy care of form, thy science), 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... | |
 | Esther J. Trimble Lippincott - American literature - 1884 - 536 pages
...were so richly spun, and woven to Gt As since she will vouchsafe no other Wit. Yet must I not give Nature all. Thy Art, My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a part, For though the poet's master Nature be, His art doth give the fashion. * * * * * For a great Poet's made as well as horue.... | |
 | Caroline Wells Healey Dall - Dramatists, English - 1885 - 216 pages
...joyed to wear the dressing of his lines ; Yet must I not give Nature all. Thy art, My gentle Shakspere, must enjoy a part, .For though the Poet's matter Nature be, His art doth give the fashion. . . . Look how the father's face Lives in his issue." In these last words Jonson... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1885 - 368 pages
...attested by the Eulogy of Ben Jonson: Yet must I not give Nature all: thy art, My gentle Shakespear, 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... | |
 | Poetry - 460 pages
...not please, But antiquated and deserted lie As they were not of Nature's family. 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... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...praise to give. (1. 17-19) 44 He was not of an age, but for all time! (1. 38) 45 Yet must I not give aint, and make a noise; (LV, 1 —2) 38 And give the fashion; and, that he Jonson POETRY QUOTATIONS Who casts to write a living line, must sweat... | |
 | American poetry - 1993 - 412 pages
...witty Plautus, now not please; But antiquated, and deserted lye As they were not of Natures family. Yet must I not giue Nature all: Thy Art, My gentle Shakespeare, must enioy a part. For though the Poets matter, Nature be, His Art doth giue the fashion. And, that he,... | |
 | Stephen Orgel, Sean Keilen - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 356 pages
...copied it. The other testimony in the First Folio — Ben Jonson's great encomium — is more explicit. Yet must I not giue Nature all: Thy Art, My gentle Shakespeare, must enioy a part. For though the Poets matter, Nature be, His Art doth giue the fashion. And, that he,... | |
 | Michael Hattaway - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 800 pages
...Jonson's elegy goes out of its way to emphasize Shakespeare as reviser and improver: Yet must I not give nature all: thy art, My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy...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... | |
 | Carol Dommermuth-Costa - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2001 - 120 pages
...not please; But antiquated and deserted lie As they were not of Nature's family. 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... | |
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