 | Warwickshire (England) - 1874 - 274 pages
...was for gentle Shakspere cut ; In which the graver had a strife With nature, to out-do the life. Oh I could he but have drawn his wit As well in brass, as he has hit His face, the piece would then surpass All that was ever writ in brass." The engraving referred... | |
 | Edward Thomas Craig - 1875 - 14 pages
...see'st put It was for gentle Shakespeare cut, Wherein the graver had a strife With Nature, to outdoe the life ; O, could he but have drawn his wit As well in brasse as he hath hit His face, the print would then surpasse All that was ever writ in brasse ; But... | |
 | Henry Kingsley - Authors, English - 1876 - 344 pages
...exquisite than this ? " This figure that thou here seest put It was for gentle Shakespeare cut. Wherein the graver had a strife With Nature, to outdo the...have drawn his wit . As well in brass as he hath hit The face, the print would then surpass All that was ever writ in brass ; But since he cannot, reader,... | |
 | Robert Greene - 1876 - 576 pages
...SHAKSPEARE.* TO THE READER.t This figure that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakspeare cut, Wherein the graver had a strife With nature, to out-do the...he but have drawn his wit As well in brass, as he has hit His face, the print would then surpass All that was ever writ in brass ; But since he cannot,... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - Authors, English - 1876 - 870 pages
...was for gentle Shakspeare cut, Wherein the graver had a strife With nature; to outdo the life : О հ Q 4 W 6 <* ƩCa, " V| լWs ` print would then surpass All that was ever writ in brass : But since he cannot, reader, look Not on... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1876 - 584 pages
...was for gentle Shakespeare cut : Wherein the graver had a strife With Nature, to outdo the life: 0, could he but have drawn his wit .As well in brass, as he had hit His face, the print would then surpass All that was ever writ in brass, lint, fcince he cannot,... | |
 | Robert Greene, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson - English poetry - 1878 - 576 pages
...SHAKSPEARE.* TO THE READER.! This figure that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakspeare cut, Wherein the graver had a strife With nature, to out-do the...he but have drawn his wit As well in brass, as he has hit His face, the print would then surpass All that was ever writ in brass ; But since he cannot,... | |
 | Eugene Lawrence - English literature - 1878 - 176 pages
...It was for gentle Shakspeare 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 surpass All that was ever writ in brass. But since he cannot, reader, look Not on... | |
 | William Leighton - 1879 - 92 pages
...opposite the portrait: "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 drawn his wit As well in brasse, as he hath hit His face ; the Print would then surpasse All, that was ever writ in brasse.... | |
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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 drawn his wit As well in brass as he hath hit His face — the print would then surpass All... 
