 | Samuel Neil - 1861 - 140 pàgines
...accuracy, considering the art of engraving then, of the likeness, by these lines, placed opposite it :— "To the reader:— This Figure, that thou here seest put, It was for gentle SHAKESPEARE out; Wherein the Graver had a strife With Nature, to out-doo the life. 0, could he but have drawne... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1862 - 964 pàgines
...verses by Ben Jonson, which of themselves attest in some degree the truthfulness of the portrait : — " out •• i"" the life. 0, could he but have drawne his wit As well in brasse as he hath hit His face,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1863 - 374 pàgines
...nature and art. Thus Ben Jonson, on the portrait of Shakespeare, prefixed to the folio of 1623 : ' Wherein the graver had a strife With Nature, to outdo the life.' 3 In a wide sea of wax ; referring to the ancient mode of writing on waxen tablets with the stylus,... | |
 | Stephen Watson Fullom - 1864 - 394 pàgines
...declares to be faithfully presented in the portrait given in the first folio edition of his works:— " This figure, that thou here see'st put, It was for...graver had a strife With Nature, to outdo the life. Oh, could he but have drawn his wit As well in brass as he hath hit His face, the prim would then surpass... | |
 | Jacques-Charles Brunet - 1864 - 918 pàgines
...Drocshoul; el vis-à-vis ce titre un feuillet contenant les vers suivants de Ben Johnson, imprimés ainsi : To the Reader, This Figure, that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut; AVherein the Grauer liad a strife with Nature, to out-doo the life: O, could he but haue drawne his... | |
 | 1864 - 580 pàgines
...on the part of the players who issued the volume, for the correctness of the likeness. The lines — "This figure that thou here see'st put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut ;" and — " O could he bnt have drawne his wit As well in brasse as he hath hit His face : the Print... | |
 | Sidney Beisly - 1864 - 200 pàgines
...engraved by Martin Droeshout, sculp., are the following lines, written by Ben Jonson : — TO THE READER. 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1865 - 436 pàgines
...attests its accuracy in some lines which were printed under it, beginning, — " This figure Hint; thou here see'st put, It was for gentle Shakespeare...graver had a strife With nature, to outdo the life." There is a good deal of resemblance between this engraving and the bust, — a fact which corroborates... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1865 - 592 pàgines
...attested by the following lines from the pen of Ben Jonson : — " This figure, that tliou here seeit put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut ; Wherein the...graver had a strife With Nature, to outdo the life : O, could he but hare drawn his wit Ai well In brail, as he had hit Hii face, the print would then... | |
 | James Darling - 1865 - 574 pàgines
...Shakespeare, opposite to which is the leaf with Ben Jonson's verses: — " This fignre that thou here sce'st put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut ; Wherein the Graver had a strife With Nature, to out-doe the life: 0, could he but have drawn his wit As well in brass as he'has hit His iace.'the print... | |
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This Figure, that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut... 
