 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
 | Marianne Novy - Family & Relationships - 2005 - 318 pages
...to this apparent shepherdess. 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.... | |
 | Claudia Swan - Art - 2005 - 288 pages
...play's protagonists, Polixenes, king of Bohemia, says of grafting: "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." He concludes, in perfectly circular form, that... | |
 | Anna Murphy Jameson - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 472 pages
...Which, you say, adds to nature, is an art That nature makes.You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentle 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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