 | Charles Knight - 1843 - 566 pages
...Ben Jonson :— " This figure, that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut ; Wherein the graver had a strife With Nature, to outdo the...could he but have drawn his wit As well in brass, S3 he had hit His face, the print would then surpass All that was ever writ in brass. But, since he... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English literature - 1843 - 970 pages
...Shakspeare cut ; Wherein the graver had a strife With nature, to out-do the life. O, could he but hare drawn his wit, As well in brass, as he hath hit His Гасе, the print would then surpass All that was ever writ in brass; But since he cannot, reader,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...was lor gentle Shakspeare cut, Wherein the graver had a strife With nature, to outdo the life : О 81 print would then surpass All that was ever writ in brass : But since he cannot, reader, look Not on... | |
 | John Britton - 1849 - 494 pages
...was for gentle Shakspere cut ; Wherein the Graver had a strife With Nature, to out-do 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... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1875 - 676 pages
...It was for gentle Shakspere 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 has hit His face : the print would then surpass All that was ever wril^m brass: But since! he cannot,... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1876 - 706 pages
...read them, which makes the allusion more interesting. Jonson laments that the graver could not "draw his wit as well in brass as he hath hit his face," and then adds: — " But, since he cannot, Reader, looke Not on his Picture, but his Booke." Which... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1876 - 602 pages
...read them, which makes the allusion more interesting. Jonson laments that the graver could not " draw his wit as well in brass as he hath hit his face," and then adds : — • " But, since he cannot, Reader, looke Not on his Picture, but his Booke." Which... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 500 pages
...Jonson. 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 outdo the...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 Shakespeare - 1851 - 624 pages
...put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut; Wherein the graver had a strife With Nature, to outdo the We: O, 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. But, since he cannot,... | |
 | George Markham Tweddell - 1852 - 232 pages
...put. It was for gentle Shakspere cut, Wherein the graver had a strife With Nature, to outdo the lile; O, could 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 sinee he cannot,... | |
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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... 
