 | Sarah Warner Brooks - 1890 - 518 стор.
...engraved likeness of the poet. " This figure that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut, Wherein the graver had a strife With nature,...outdo the life. O could he but have drawn his wit A3 well in brass as he hath hit His face, the print would then surpass All that wag ever writ in brass... | |
 | Grolier Club - 1891 - 84 стор.
...Day, Dekker, and Lodge. folio editions of his works, authenticated as it is by Ben Jonson's verses, Wherein the Graver had a strife With nature to outdo the Life, cannot be rivaled by any of the numerous oil-portraits, not one of which can be traced back farther... | |
 | Brayton Ives - 1891 - 356 стор.
...state as they are here is rare, even in the most expensive copies. The verses are as follows : 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... | |
 | Thomas William White - 1892 - 326 стор.
...of 1623. And first, we have the lines set opposite the portrait of the presumed author. • To the Reader. This figure, that thou here see'st put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut, Wherein the Graver had a strife With Nature to out-doe the life. Oh, could he but... | |
 | Emma Marshall - 1890 - 388 стор.
...William Shakespeare : — To THE READER. ' This figure that thou seest put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut, Wherein the graver had a strife With Nature to...life. O ! could he but have drawn his wit As well on brass, as he hath hit His face ; the print would then surpass All that was ever writ in brass. But... | |
 | Helen Archibald Clarke - 1908 - 520 стор.
...reproduced in this volume, which it is safe to regard as the Shakespeare Ben Jonson remembered: "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... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1909 - 636 стор.
...ON THE PORTRAIT OF SHAKESPEARE THIS figure that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut, Wherein the graver had a strife With Nature, to outdo the life. Oh, could he but have drawn his wit As well in brass, as he has hit His face, the print would then... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1911 - 452 стор.
...ON THE PORTRAIT OF SHAKESPEARE THIS figure that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut, Wherein the graver had a strife With Nature, to outdo the life. Oh, could he but have drawn his wit As well in brass, as he has hit His face, the print would then... | |
 | Lewis Frederick Bostelmann - 1911 - 264 стор.
...Rutland did assume. While at the whole I- have my fling — To both, alike, my praises ring! [Reads] "Wherein the graver had a strife "With Nature, to outdo the life." In this I chide the poor engraver, For fighting Nature to enslave her. "As well in brass as he had... | |
 | William Sharp Ogden - 1912 - 86 стор.
...qualities. These are his lines : — " This figure, that thou here see'st put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut. Wherein the 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... | |
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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 outdo the life. 
