| Book - 1872 - 326 Seiten
...vouchsafe no other wit. The merry Greek, tart Aristophanes, Neat Terence, witty Plautus, now not please ; But antiquated and deserted lie, As they were not...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... | |
| Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1872 - 274 Seiten
...thought Ben Jonson,—himself a thoroughly artistic poet,—who, speaking of Shakespeare, says that " Though the poet's matter Nature be, . His art doth give the fashion." He also gives warning against the neglect of the poetical art, saying that if the poet trust too much... | |
| Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1875 - 510 Seiten
...vouchsafe no other wit. The merry Greek, tart Aristophanes, Neat Terence, witty Plautus, now not please ; But antiquated and deserted lie, As they were not...Yet must I not give nature all ; thy art, My gentle Shakspeare,10 must enjoy a part. For though the poet's matter nature be, His art doth give the fashion... | |
| Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1875 - 510 Seiten
...vouchsafe no other wit The merry Greek, tart Aristophanes, Neat Terence, witty Plautus, now not please ; But antiquated and deserted lie, As they were not...Yet must I not give nature all ; thy art, My gentle Shakspeare,10 must enjoy a part. For though the poet's matter nature be, His art doth give the fashion... | |
| Ben Jonson - 1875 - 508 Seiten
...score of ingratitude to Shakspeare for introducing him to the stage, and bringing out this very play! " Yet must I not give nature all; thy art, My gentle Shakspeare, must enjoy a part." p. 560. Though Steevens and Malone could not avoid giving Jonson's poem " on the memory of his beloved... | |
| Rosaline Orme Masson - 1876 - 454 Seiten
...vouchsafe no other wit. The merry Greek, tart Aristophanes, Neat Terence, witty Plautus, now not please ; But antiquated and deserted lie, As they were not...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... | |
| Rosaline Orme Masson - 1876 - 454 Seiten
...vouchsafe no other wit. The merry Greek, tart Aristophanes, Neat Terence, witty Plautus, now not please ; But antiquated and deserted lie, As they were not...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... | |
| Rosaline Orme Masson - 1876 - 460 Seiten
...Greek, tart Aristophanes, But antiquated and deserted lie, Neat Terence, witty Plautus, now not please ; As they were not of Nature's family.. 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... | |
| Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 Seiten
...vouchsafe no other wit. The merry Greek, tart Aristophanes, Neat Terence, witty Plautus, now not please ; roof in words deceiving. Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, Vet must I not give nature all ; thy art, My gentle Shakspeare, must enjoy a part. For though the poet's... | |
| William Tegg - 1879 - 290 Seiten
...Greek, tart Aristophanes, Neat Terence, witty Plautus, now not please; But antiquated and deserted he, As they were not of Nature's family. Yet must I not...art doth give the fashion; and that he, Who casts aright a living line, must sweat, (Such as thine are) and strike the second heat Upon the Muses' anvil;... | |
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