 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1853 - 442 pàgines
...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...Graver had a strife With Nature, to out-do the life : O, could he but have drawn his wit A s well in brass, as he hath hit His face ; the Print would then... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1853 - 1158 pàgines
...stands in the folio of 1623, for it afterwards went through various literal changes. " To THE EEADEK. " Ros. But that you take what doth to you belong, It were a fault to snatch words from Grauer had a strife With Nature, to out-doo the life : 0, could he but haue drawn e his wit His face... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 746 pàgines
...Work« in folio, 1U3. TO THE HEADER. 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 : О could he but have drawn his wit As well in brass, as he has hit His face ; the print would then... | |
 | 1853 - 796 pàgines
...editorial supervision appears to " The li jure Hint thon here seeit put It was for gentle Shakspearc cut ; Wherein the graver had a strife With nature to out-do the life. O, could he but have drawn hit wit As well In brass, as he hai hit Hit face, the print would then surpass... | |
 | George Henry Townsend - 1857 - 136 pàgines
...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...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 ;... | |
 | William Henry Smith - 1857 - 188 pàgines
...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,...; Wherein the graver had a strife with Nature, to out-duo the life : O, could he but have drawn his wit As well in brasse, as he hath hit His face ;... | |
 | William Henry Smith - 1857 - 190 pàgines
...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...; Wherein the graver had a strife with Nature, to out-doo the life : O, could he but have drawn his wit Aa well in brasse, as he hath hit His face ;... | |
 | George Henry Townsend - 1857 - 136 pàgines
...by Ben Jonson appear. They are addressed " to the Reader : " — "This Figure, that thou here geest put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut ; Wherein the Graver had a strife With Nature, to out-doo the life : 0, could he but have drawne his Wit As well in Brasse, as he hath hit His Face ;... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 630 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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.... | |
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This Figure, that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut... 
