 | Abraham Wivell - 1827 - 430 pągines
...which will now be recommended, by a more accurate and finished engraving, to the publick notice : — " This Figure, that thou here seest put, " It was for...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 * It is... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - 1828 - 408 pągines
...Jonson, addressed to the reader : " This figure that thou seest here put, It was for gentle Shakspeare cut, Wherein the graver had a strife With nature to outdo the life : O, could he but have drawn his wit As well in brass, as he hath hit His face ; the print would then... | |
 | 1832 - 384 pągines
...bestowed upon it by Ben Jonson would amount to gross flattery. / look upon it in the same light — " Wherein the graver had a strife With Nature — to outdo the life." I regret the discontinuance of the Royal Academy Catalogues, and beg to suggest printing the remainder... | |
 | William Thomas Lowndes - 1834 - 1130 pągines
...U Martin Droes”пшГ.. portrait of Shakespeare, underneath which are Ben Jonson's verses : To Ike Shakespear cut; Wherein the Graver had a strife With Nature to outdo the Life. O, could he but have... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1843 - 566 pągines
...accuracy of the resemblance is also attested by the following lines from the pen of Ben Jonson :— " This figure, that thou here seest put, It was for...graver had a strife With Nature, to outdo the life : O, could he but have drawn his wit As well in brass, S3 he had hit His face, the print would then... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 658 pągines
...in foho, 16^3 TO THE ККАDКR. This figure that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakspere cut, Wherein the graver had a strife With nature, to outdo the life : O could he but have drawn his wit As well in brass, as he has hit His face; the print would then... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1844 - 600 pągines
...exactly as it stands in the folio of 1623, for it afterwards went through various literal changes. "To THE READER. " This Figure, that thou here seest...put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut ; Wherein the Grauer had a strife With Nature, to out-doo the life : O, could he but haue drawne his wit As well... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 598 pągines
...exactly as it stands in the folio of 1623, for it afterwards went through various literal changes. "To THE READER. " This Figure, that thou here seest...put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut ; Wherein the Grauer had a strife With Nature, to out-doo the life : O, could he but haue drawne his wit As well... | |
 | 1876 - 818 pągines
...Shakespeare, wrote the following lines, which were engraved under a bust of Shakespeare: — " The figure that thou here seest put, It was for gentle...graver had a strife "With Nature, to outdo the life ; O, conld he but have drawn his wit As well in brass aa he hits hit His face, the print would then... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 pągines
...first edition of his work» : ИИ.] This figure that thou here sccst put, It was lor gentle Shakspeare 0 0 0 : О could he but have drawn his wit, As well in brass, as he hath hit His face ; the print would then... | |
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This Figure, that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut... 
