 | John Booth - 1865 - 400 pàgines
...collected works, 1623. TO THE READER. This figure which thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakspeare 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... | |
 | Epigrams - 1865 - 398 pàgines
...collected works, 1623. TO THE READER. This figure which thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakspeare 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... | |
 | Emmeline Lott - 1865 - 406 pàgines
...Jonson's celebrated lines:—- " This figure that thou here seest put, It is for princely Ismael Pacha 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 portrait would then... | |
 | Walter F. Tiffin - 1866 - 244 pàgines
...adopted also in later editions. " This figure that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakespear cut ; Wherein the graver had a strife With nature,...life. 0 could he but have drawn his wit As well in hrass, as he has hit His face, the print would then surpass All that was ever writ in brass. But since... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1866 - 574 pàgines
...THE PORTRAIT OF SHAKESPEARE. [Under the frontispiece to the first edition of his works : 1623.] \HIS figure that thou here seest put, It was for gentle...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 - 1866 - 588 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 ; Wherein the grauer had a strife With Nature, to out-doo the life. 0, could he but haue drawne his wit As well in... | |
 | Walter F. Tiffin - 1866 - 242 pàgines
...adopted also in later editions. " This figure that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakespear 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1871 - 1016 pàgines
...ïitelblatt gegenüber ftebt foigenbe« auf ba« Stibnifj Ье,5ЙдПфе ®еЬ1ф1 Sen Oonfon'S: To the Reader. This Figure, that thou here seest put,...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, us he hath hit His face ;... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - 584 pàgines
...resemblance is also attested by the following lines from the pen of Ben Jonson : — " This figure, that thon here seest put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut:...graver had a strife With Nature, to outdo the life: O, could he hut have drawn his wit As well in brass, as he had hit His face, the print would then surpass... | |
 | John Wien Forney - 1867 - 420 pàgines
...vitality and fidelity in this witness: 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. Oh 1 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... 
