 | Ben Jonson, John Addington Symonds - 1886 - 430 Seiten
...was for gentle SHAKESPEARE cut, Wherein the graver had a strife With nature, to out-do 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 th at was ever writ in brass : But since he cauuot,... | |
 | Karl Elze - 1888 - 632 Seiten
...he says : — 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...that was ever writ in brass. But, since he cannot, Header, look Not on his Picture, but his Book. 1 The following vevse is to be found in the Visitor's... | |
 | Karl Elze - 1888 - 606 Seiten
...was for gentle Shakespeare cut ; Wherein the Graver had a strife With Nature, to out-do the life : 0, could he but have drawn his wit As well in brass, as he hath hit III.- face, the Print would then surpass All, that was ever writ in brass. But, since he cannot, Header,... | |
 | Kenyon West - 1895 - 614 Seiten
...was for gentle Shakespeare cut, Wherein the graver had a strife With Nature, to outdo the life ; Oh, 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 since he cannot,... | |
 | Kenyon West - 1895 - 588 Seiten
...was for gentle Shakespeare cut, Wherein the graver had a strife With Nature, to outdo the life ; Oh. 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 since he cannot,... | |
 | Edwin Reed - 1897 - 356 Seiten
...to the engraver's art, is an extract : — " Oh, could he but have drawn his wit As well in brasse as he hath hit His face, the print would then surpass All that was ever writ in brasse." The portrait is " a hard, wooden, staring thing " (Richard Grant White), stupid, inane, hideous,... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 Seiten
...was for gentle Shakespeare cut, Wherein the graver had a strife With Nature, to outdo the life : Oh, ,3/ has hit His face, the print would then surpass All that was ever writ in brass ; But since he cannot,... | |
 | Henrik Schück - 1897 - 442 Seiten
...författade verser: This figure, tliat thou here seest put, It was for gontle Shakspere cut; Whcrein the Graver had a strife With Nature. to out-do the life: O, could he but hnve drawn his wit As well in brass, as he hath hit Hiti face, the Frint would then surpass All, that... | |
 | William Henry Edwards - 1900 - 534 Seiten
...So he begins: "This figure that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut, Wherein the graver had a strife With nature to outdo the life:...face, the Print would then surpass All that was ever wrote iu Brass." This play upon the word "Brass" can have but one meaning, namely, to intimate that... | |
 | Sadakichi Hartmann - 1900 - 608 Seiten
...With nature, to outdo the life : O, could he but have drawn his wit As well in Brasse as he hath bit His face : the print would then surpass All that was ever writ in brasse. But since he cannot, Reader look Not on his picture, but his Book." CHAPTER II. THE SHAKESPEAREAN... | |
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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 has hit His face ; the print would then surpass All that... 
