 | Richard Winter Hamilton - 1841 - 662 pages
...finally to promote the gradual perfection of the intellectual system." EUSTACE — Classical Tour. " This is an art, Which does mend nature, — change it rather; but The art itself is nature." SHAISPEABE — Winter's Tale. THE HISTORY AND PROSPECTS OF THE HUMAN SPECIES CONSIDERED,... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1842 - 560 pages
...maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race : this is an art Which does mend nature, — change it rather ; but The art itself is nature. P&: So it is. Pol. Then make your garden rich in gilly-flowers, And do not call them... | |
 | Cheryll Glotfelty, Harold Fromm - 1996 - 466 pages
...maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race. This is an art Which does mend Nature, change it rather; but The art itself is Nature. As usual, Shakespeare says it all: the subtext here is that Perdita is a base shepherdess... | |
 | Kenneth M. Price - 1996 - 392 pages
...maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock; And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race: This is an art Which does mend nature — change it rather: but The art itself is nature." Whitman has not failed to perceive this truth, but he fears that it may be abused.... | |
 | Pauline Kiernan - 1998 - 236 pages
...maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race. This is an art Which does mend nature - change it rather - but The art itself is nature. Perdita. So it is. Polixenes. Then make your garden rich in gillyvors, And do not... | |
 | Northrop Frye, Professor Robert D Denham - 1997 - 592 pages
...maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race: this is an art Which does mend Nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature. Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale [4.4.89—971 Nearly all the deeper questions dealt... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 1997 - 438 pages
...maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race. This is an art Which does mend nature - change it rather; but The art itself is nature. (4.4.90-7) The relevance of his remarks to the actual dramatic situation is apparent,... | |
 | L. T. Evans - 1998 - 268 pages
...Tale, when Perdita spurns the hybrid carnations 'which some call nature's bastards', Polixenes replies 'This is an art which does mend nature - change it rather - but the art itself is nature'. In early maize crops that art was indeed natural, given both the openpollinated... | |
 | Frederick Turner - 1999 - 232 pages
...maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race. This is an art Which does mend Nature, change it rather; but The art itself is Nature. (IV.iv.88) The image that Polixenes uses to explain the relationship between nature... | |
 | Leo Marx - 2000 - 428 pages
...maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race. This is an art Which does mend Nature, change it rather, but The art itself is Nature. The context, it is generally conceded, lends Shakespeare's support to Polixenes'... | |
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But nature makes that mean; so over that art, Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race. This is an art Which... 
