...gegenüber, welcher Shakspere's Bild zeigt, ein Gedicht, welches sich auf dieses bezieht: To the Reader. This Figure, that thou here seest put, ' It was for gentle Shakespeare cut; Wherein the Grauer had a strife With Nature, to out-doo the life: 0, could he but haue rirawno his wit As well...

...testimony. In his lines accompanying the Droeshout portrait in the Folio, he says this : — To the Reader This Figure, that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut; Wherein the Grauer had a strife With Nature, to out-doo the life: O, could he but have drawne his wit As well in...

...Shakespeare, identify the sitter: This figure, that thou there seest put It was for Shakespear's Consort cut Wherein the Graver had a strife With Nature to outdo the Life O had he Her Complexion shewn As plain as He's the outline Drawn The plate, believe me, woud surpass...

...silent amongst men, Till I may see both it and you again. TO THE READER This figure that them here sccst put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut, Wherein the...could he but have drawn his wit As well in brass as he hath hit His face — the print would then surpass All that was ever writ in brass. But since he cannot,...

...In its place, in large print, was the following ten-line poem, by Ben Jonson: This figure, that thou seest put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut, Wherein...graver had a strife With Nature, to outdo the life; Oh, could he but have drawn his wit As well in brass, as he hath hit His face; the print would then...

...Shakespeare, as in his verses designed to accompany the frontispiece of Shakespeare's First Folio in 1623: This Figure, that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut. (Ungathered Verse, 25.1-2) The word occurs again in Jonson's poem "To the Memory of My Beloved, The...

...lie Ben Jonson his best piece of poetry. 'On My First Son' (1616) 18 This figure that thou here sees! put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut, Wherein the...graver had a strife With Nature, to out-do the life: 0 could he but have drawn his wit As well in brass, as he has hit His face; the print would then surpass...

...Erlbaum, 1992), p. I24, where it forms part of an extended discussion of literal portraits. To the Reader. This Figure, that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut; Wherein the Grauer had a strife with Nature to out-doo the life: O, could he but haue drawne his wit As well in...

..."Ungathered Verse," 25, the introduction to Shakespeare's First Folio, at the very beginning "to the reader": "This Figure, that thou here seest put, / It was for gentle Shakespeare cut." And then at 26 in his famous dedicatory Epistle: "Yet I must give not give Nature all: Thy Art, / My...

...Hamlet and this impassioned conception reaches titanic heights : k This One 07LE-BTA-82WR TO THE READER. l Friedman Publishing Group, Incorporated то OUT-DO THE LIFE: O, COULD HE BUT HAVE DRAWN HIS WIT AS WELL IN BRASS, AS HE HATH HIT His FACE;...