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" Yet nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes that mean : so, o'er that art Which, you say, adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. "
Cymbeline. The winter's tale - Page 100
by William Shakespeare - 1884
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Flora Historica: Or, The Three Seasons of the British Parterre ..., Volume 2

Henry Phillips - Floriculture - 1829 - 442 pages
...care not To get slips of them. POI.IXENES. Wherefore, gentle maiden, Do you neglect them ? PERDITA. For I have heard it said, There is an art, which,...their piedness, shares With great creating nature. The name of Clove, as well as that of Caryophyllus, was given to this species of Dianthus, from the...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, Volume 3

William Shakespeare, William Harness - 1830 - 484 pages
...havek heard it said, There is an art, which, in their piedness, shares With great creating nature. Pol. Say, there be ; Yet nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes that mean : so, o'er that art, Which you say, adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we...
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The Dramatic Works and Poems of William Shakespeare, with Notes ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1831 - 542 pages
...heard it said, There is an art,6 which, in their piedness, shares With great creating nature. Pol, kspeare. This is gathered from ai:: morandum by Malone, hut Steevens does in ettcci sa o'er that art, Which, you say, adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we...
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Characteristics of women, moral, poetical and historical, Volume 1

Anna Brownell Jameson - Women in literature and art - 1832 - 378 pages
...Do you neglect them ? PERDITA. For 1 have heard it said, There is an art, which in their pieduess, shares With great creating nature POLIXENES. Say there...better by no mean But nature makes that mean : so, o'er that art Which, you say, adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text ...

William Shakespeare - 1833 - 1140 pages
...barren; and I care not To get slips of them. Pol. Wherefore, gentle maiden, Do you neglect them? Per. . seen through the lion's neck; and he himself must...through, saying thus, or to the same defect, — Pol. Say, there be; Yet nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes that mean: so, o'er flint...
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Selections from the works of Taylor, Hooker, Barrow [and others] by B. Montagu

Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1834 - 364 pages
...conceit of this virtue, as to conceive that to give alms, is only to be chaYet nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes that mean ; So over that...that nature makes ; you see, sweet maid, We marry a gentle scyon to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race. This...
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Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Literary Criticism - 1834 - 368 pages
...nature. Pol. Say there be : " Yet nature is made better by no mean, " But nature makes that mean. So ev'n that art, " Which you say adds to nature, is an art...makes ! You see, sweet maid, we marry " A gentler scyon to the wildest stock : " And make conceive a bark of ruder kind " By bud of nobler race. This...
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Biographia Literaria: Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary ..., Volumes 1-2

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Criticism - 1834 - 360 pages
...nature. Pol. Say there he : " Yet nature is made better by no mean, " But nature makes that mean. So ev'n that art, " Which you say adds to nature, is an art...makes ! You see, sweet maid, we marry " A gentler scyon to (he wildest stock : " And make conceive a bark of ruder kind " By bud of nobler race. This...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: A New Edition:

Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 538 pages
...brief, all things are artificial : for, nature is the art " of God." So Shakspeare says, " Perdita. For I have heard it said, " There is an art, which...their piedness shares " With great creating nature. " Pol. Say there be, ' Yet nature is made better by no mean, ~ ^ But nature makes that mean ; So over...
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The Metropolitan, Volume 16

English literature - 1836 - 596 pages
...this in The Winttr't Tale : " Nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes that mean : so o'er that art, Which you say adds to nature, is an art,...That nature makes : you see, sweet maid, we marry A gentle scyon to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race. This...
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