 | William Shakespeare - 1858 - 830 pages
...were so richly spun, and woven so fit, As, since, she will vouchsafe no other Wit. The merry Greeke, ! so-ho ! PRO. What seest thou? LAUN. Him we go to find lye, As they were not of Natures family. Yet must I not give Nature all ; thy Art, My gentle Shakespeare,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Registers of births, etc - 1858 - 832 pages
...were so richly spun, and woven so fit, As, since, she will vouchsafe no other Wit. The merry Greeke, tart Aristophanes, Neat Terence, witty Plautus, now not please ; But antiquated and deserted lye, As they were not of Natures family. Yet must I not give Nature all ; thy Art, My gentle Shakespeare,... | |
 | George Gilfillan - English poetry - 1860 - 396 pages
...joy'd to wear the dressing of his lines ! . Which were so richly spun, and woven so fit, As, since, she will vouchsafe no other wit. The merry Greek,...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... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1894 - 608 pages
...Jonson remarks that the influence of Shakespeare wrought a change of taste in his day, so that-i " The merry Greek, tart Aristophanes, Neat Terence,...deserted lie, As they were not of Nature's family. Two centuries later we find the young poets were again objecting that their elders were not of "Nature's... | |
 | George Gilfillan - English poetry - 1860 - 392 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 strike the second heat Upon... | |
 | Samuel Butler - 1855 - 264 pages
...And joyed to wear the dressing of his lines ! Which were so richly spun, and woven to fit, As since, she will vouchsafe no other wit. The merry Greek,...Aristophanes, Neat Terence, witty Plautus, now not please j But antiquated and deserted lie, Incompetent to judge poetic fury, As butchers are forbid to b' of... | |
 | Samuel Neil - Dramatists, English - 1861 - 140 pages
...though represented by Drummond as saying, in 161S, " Shakespere wanted art," he in this poem says,— "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 borne, And such wert thou." And so distinctly shows that he thought... | |
 | John Alfred Langford - England - 1862 - 310 pages
...And joy'd to wear the dressing of his lines ; Which were so richly spun, and woven so fit, As, since, she will vouchsafe no other wit : The merry Greek,...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1862 - 964 pages
...were so richly spun, and woven so fit, As, since, she will vouchsafe no other Wit. The merry Greeke, , @ 0 lye, As they were not of Natures family. Yet must I not give Nature all ; thy Art, My gentle Shakespeare,... | |
 | Great Britain - 1864 - 974 pages
...then and has since been laid : — " Yet mast I not give Nuture all; — thy Art, My gentle Shakspere, must enjoy a part ; For though the poet's matter Nature be, His Art doth give the fashion. For a good poet's made as well as born ; And snch wert thon. Look how the father's face Lives in his... | |
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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... 
