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 have drawne his wit As well in brasse, as he hath hit His face ; the print would then surpasse... Remarks on the life and writings of William Shakspeareавтори: John Britton - 1814 - 80 стор.Повний перегляд - Докладніше про цю книгу
| Henry Pemberton, Mrs. Susan Lovering Pemberton - 1914 - 302 стор.
...Wales ISO jSir Walter Ralegh (Engraved by Vaughan) 158 PART I WILLIAM SHAKSPERE IN STRATFORD AND LONDON 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 have... | |
| Robert Frazer - 1915 - 220 стор.
..."BI," or Ben Jonson, and are written in a style which obituary poetry has rendered familiar to us all; 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 outdoo the life. O, could he but have... | |
| Alexander Cargill - 1916 - 230 стор.
...dedicatory lines in the forefront of the famous First Folio (1623). These lines declare as follows : *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-do the life : O could he but have... | |
| George Frederick Kunz - 1916 - 120 стор.
...illustrating the above remarks they can be repeated here, in the old spelling and form of the First Folio: To THE READER. This Figure, that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut; Wherein the Graver has a strife With Nature, to out-doo the life: O, could he but... | |
| Walter Arensberg - 1922 - 314 стор.
...cross gartered acrostic appears in the passage To the Reader, in the front of the Shakespeare Folio : 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... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1922 - 246 стор.
...the page facing the title the Folio has the following note, signed with Ben Jonson's initials: — '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... | |
| Edward Walter Smithson - 1922 - 242 стор.
...must have been extraordinary. The volume is introduced by some doggerel, signed " BI," which tells the reader : This figure that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut ; Wherein, etc. Derision and mystification, twin motives or causes of the guy Chronomastix,... | |
| Joseph Quincy Adams - 1923 - 720 стор.
...received a modicum of praise. On the page facing the portrait were set the following verses by Ben Jonson: 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 do the life. O, could he but have... | |
| Georges Auguste Connes - 1927 - 294 стор.
...quote to you the poem addressed to Shakespeare's readers by "rare Ben Jonson" as he was called: v " 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"y O, could he but... | |
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