 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 916 pages
...which are reprinted in the same place, with some trifling variation of typography, in the folio 0/1632. owers, whose condemnation is pronounced. So far Graver had a strife With Nature, to out-do the life : O, could he but have drawn his wit As well in... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1853 - 442 pages
...in the same place, with some trifling variation of typography, in the folio of 1632. TO THE BEADER. 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 A s well in... | |
 | George Henry Townsend - 1857 - 136 pages
...1623." On the opposite page, the following oft-quoted lines by Ben Jonson appear. They are addressed " 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 out-doo the life : O, could he but have drawne his Wit As well... | |
 | William Henry Smith - 1857 - 188 pages
...with commentators, " it is ever usual to blanche the obscure places and discourse upon the plain." 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 out-duo the life : O, could he but have drawn his wit As well in... | |
 | William Henry Smith - 1857 - 190 pages
...commentators, " it is ever usual to blanche the obscure places and discourse upon the plain." TO TEE READER. This Figure, that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut ; Wherein the graver had a strife with Nature, to out-doo the life : O, could he but have drawn his wit Aa well in... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 630 pages
...PORTRAIT OF SHAKSPEARE. Prefixed as a Frontispiece to the first edition of his Works in folio, 1623. TO THE READER. This figure that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakspeare cut, Wherein the graver had a strife With nature, to outdo the life : 0 could he but have... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 666 pages
...accompany it, and which we are almost bound to accept as the sincere expression of his opinion : " This figure, that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut; from the writer's imperfect knowledge of quantity), Steevens would read "Sophoclem." 41 MM. Mu». Athmol.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1858 - 762 pages
...the conviction, that the picture from which he worked must have been a very coarse specimen of art. " To THE READER. " This Figure, that thou here seest...With Nature, to out-doo the life: O, could he but haue drawne his wit As well in brasse, as he hath hit His face ; the Print would then surpasse All,... | |
 | William Thomas Lowndes - 1864 - 352 pages
...Reader. This Figure, that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut; Wherein the Graver had a strife With Nature, to out-doo the life : O, could he but have drawne his Wit As well in Urasse, as he hath hit His face : the Print would then surpasse All, that was ever writ in brasse.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1858 - 830 pages
...Readers we wish him. JOHN HEMINOE, HENUIE CONDELL. COMMENDATORY VERSES PREFIXED TO THE FOLIO OF 1623. t a scourge is laid upon your hate, That heaven finds...means to kill your joys with love ! And I, for wi Graver had a strife With Nature, to out-doo the life : O, could he but have drawne his wit As well... | |
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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-doo the life: O, could he but have drawne his wit As well in brasse, as he hath hit His face ; the print would then surpasse... 
