 This Figure, that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut ; Wherein the Graver had a strife With Nature, to out-doo the life: O, could he but have drawne his wit As well in brasse, as he hath hit His face ; the print would then surpasse...  The Cryptography of Shakespeare: Part one - Seite 273von Walter Arensberg - 1922 - 280 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 624 Seiten
...accuracy of the resemblance is also attested by the following lines from the pen of Ben Jonson : — " This figure, that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut; Wherein the graver had a strife With Nature, to outdo the We: O, could he but have drawn his wit As well in brass,... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1853 - 1158 Seiten
...stands in the folio of 1623, for it afterwards went through various literal changes. " To THE EEADEK. " This Figure, that thou here seest put, It was for...Grauer had a strife With Nature, to out-doo the life : 0, could he but haue drawn e his wit His face ; the Print would then surpasse As well in brasse,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 916 Seiten
...which are reprinted in the same place, with some trifling variation of typography, in the folio 0/1632. owers, whose condemnation is pronounced. So far Graver had a strife With Nature, to out-do the life : O, could he but have drawn his wit As well in... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1853 - 442 Seiten
...in the same place, with some trifling variation of typography, in the folio of 1632. TO THE BEADER. 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 A s well in... | |
 | William Henry Smith - 1857 - 188 Seiten
...with commentators, " it is ever usual to blanche the obscure places and discourse upon the plain." TO THE READER. This Figure, that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut ; Wherein the graver had a strife with Nature, to out-duo the life : O, could he but have drawn his wit As well in... | |
 | George Henry Townsend - 1857 - 136 Seiten
...1623." On the opposite page, the following oft-quoted lines by Ben Jonson appear. They are addressed " to the Reader :"— "This Figure, that thou here seest...put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut; Wherein the Graver had a strife With Nature, to out-doo the life : O, could he but have drawne his Wit As well... | |
 | William Henry Smith - 1857 - 190 Seiten
...commentators, " it is ever usual to blanche the obscure places and discourse upon the plain." TO TEE READER. This Figure, that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut ; Wherein the graver had a strife with Nature, to out-doo the life : O, could he but have drawn his wit Aa well in... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 630 Seiten
...PORTRAIT OF SHAKSPEARE. Prefixed as a Frontispiece to the first edition of his Works in folio, 1623. TO THE READER. This figure that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakspeare cut, Wherein the graver had a strife With nature, to outdo the life : 0 could he but have... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 666 Seiten
...accompany it, and which we are almost bound to accept as the sincere expression of his opinion : " This figure, that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut; from the writer's imperfect knowledge of quantity), Steevens would read "Sophoclem." 41 MM. Mu». Athmol.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1858 - 762 Seiten
...the conviction, that the picture from which he worked must have been a very coarse specimen of art. " To THE READER. " This Figure, that thou here seest...Nature, to out-doo the life: O, could he but haue drawne his wit As well in brasse, as he hath hit His face ; the Print would then surpasse All, that... | |
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