 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
 | Howard B. White - History - 1970 - 174 pages
...Winter's Tale which may help: 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...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.29... | |
 | Stephen W. Smith, Travis Curtright - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 264 pages
...response, Polixenes defends art: 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...stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race. (4.4.89-95) It is ironic that Polixenes upholds a matchmaking practice he is about to... | |
 | Mary Ann McGrail - Drama - 2002 - 200 pages
...nature. Pol. 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...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.... | |
 | Barbara Newman - History - 2016 - 476 pages
...Tale, one of Shakespeare's masquerade plays, the disguised king of Bohemia tells the disguised Perdita: 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. This is an art Which does mend Nature, change it rather; but The art itself is Nature.91... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Quotations, English - 2002 - 244 pages
...pageants. Antony — A&C IV.xiv How hard it is to hide the sparks of nature! Belarius — Cymbelme III. in 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.... | |
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