 | William Shakespeare - 1866 - 588 pagine
...write a living line, must sweat, — Such as thine are, — and strike the second heat Upon the Muses' anvil ; turn the same, And himself with it, that he...gain a scorn, — For a good poet's made, as well as born : And such wert thou. Look how the father's face Lives in his issue ; even so the race Of Shakespeare's... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1866 - 574 pagine
...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...as thine are) and strike the second heat Upon the Muses' anvil ; turn the same, And himself with it, that he thinks to frame ; Or for the laurel, he... | |
 | Ebenezer Forsyth - 1867 - 148 pagine
...Nature all ; thy Art, My gentle Shakspeare, must enjoy a part : For though the Poets matter, Nature be, His Art doth give the fashion. And, that he, Who casts...sweat (Such as thine are) and strike the second heat K Upon the Muses anvile : turne the same, (And himselfe with it) that he thinkes to frame ; Or, for... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - 584 pagine
...to write a living line, must sweat, (Such as thine are,) and strike the second heat Upon the muses' anvil ; turn the same (And himself with it) that he...for the laurel, he may gain a scorn, — For a good poet 's made, as well as born : And such wert thou." Having disposed, then, of these general considerations... | |
 | Nathaniel Holmes - 1867 - 636 pagine
...could with difficulty " spare or pass by a jest." Jonson also writes of " my gentle Shakespeare," — "that he Who casts to write a living line, must sweat,...as thine are) and strike the second heat Upon the Muses anvile." And so, according to the Dedication and Preface, " Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies,... | |
 | Cunningham Geikie - 1868 - 280 pagine
...spontaneous Genius, but notice Ben Jonson's lines about him : — For though the Poet's matter, Nature be, His Art doth give the fashion. And, that he, Who casts...gain a scorn — For a Good Poet's made, as well as born.* Locke's Common-place Books are a lesson to all. Addison amassed three folios of materials before... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1868 - 578 pagine
...all : thy art, 11 Y 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...thine are), and strike the second heat . • Upon the Muses' anvil : turn the same (And kimsclf with it) that he thinks to frame ; Or, for the laurel, he... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1868 - 570 pagine
...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 : and that he Who casts...sweat (Such as thine are), and strike the second heat * • The Pocbuter," Act T. Sc. I. t Book viii. ch. ip 369. Upon the Muses' anvil : turn the same (And... | |
 | Class-book - 1869 - 344 pagine
...^Terence, born 195 BC, and Platuus, born 254 BC, Roman comic poe!s. For though the poet's matter nature be, His art doth give the fashion ; and, that he Who casts...thine are — and strike the second heat Upon the Muses' anvil ; turn the same, 45 And himself with it, that he thinks to frame ; Or for the laurel,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1875 - 656 pagine
...all : thy art, My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a part: K >r, though the poet's matter nature be, His art doth give the fashion ; and that he Who casts...as thine are,) and strike the second heat Upon the Muses' anvil ; turn the same, (And himself with it,) that he thinks to frame; Or, for the laurel, he... | |
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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. And, that he, Who casts to write a living line, must sweat, (Such as thine are)... 
