 You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race: this is an art Which does mend nature, — change it rather; but The art itself is nature.  The Plays of Shakspeare - Page 99by William Shakespeare - 1897Full view - About this book
 | Parke Godwin - 1999 - 316 pages
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 | Leo Marx - History - 2000 - 428 pages
...POLIXENES. Say there be; Yet Nature is made better by no mean But Nature makes that mean; so, over that art Which you say adds to Nature, is an art That...stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race. This is an art Which does mend Nature, change it rather, but The art itself is Nature.... | |
 | Anuradha Sharma - 2005 - 478 pages
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 | William Hazlitt - 1999 - 273 pages
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 | Peter Holland - Drama - 2000 - 376 pages
...Perdita in Tl1e Winter's Tale. In the famous set piece Perdita argues for nature; Polixenes for nurture: You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the...stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race. 4.4.92-5 Yet such creations are shunned by Perdita who twice remarks that such 'slips'... | |
 | Anuradha Sharma - 2005 - 478 pages
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 | Allan Bloom - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 172 pages
...making philosophers kings. Polixenes, under the influence of this girl, makes the following reflection: You see, sweet maid we marry A gentler scion to the...stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race. (IV.iv.92-95) Here he speaks as the kind of eugenicist recommended in The Republic, where... | |
 | John London - Performing Arts - 2000 - 372 pages
...and Polixenes was deleted. Gone from the script are Polixenes's words extolling the art of marrying 'a gentler scion to the wildest stock, / And make conceive a bark of baser kind / By bud of nobler race. This is an art / Which does mend Nature - change it, rather - but / The art itself, is... | |
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