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" Yet must I not give nature all; thy art, My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a part; For though the poet's matter nature be, His art doth give the fashion; and that he Who casts to write a living line, must sweat, Such as thine are, and strike the second... "
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Shakespeare and the Literary Tradition

Stephen Orgel, Sean Keilen - 1999 - 356 pages
...as it were, to spare Shakespeare the implication that his greatness could proceed from Nature alone: Yet must I not give Nature all: Thy Art, My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a part. For though the Poets matter, Nature be, His Art doth give the fashion. And, that he, Who casts to write a living line,...
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A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture

Michael Hattaway - 2002 - 800 pages
...art'.8 In contrast, Jonson's elegy goes out of its way to emphasize Shakespeare as reviser and improver: Yet must I not give nature all: thy art, My gentle...matter, nature be, His art doth give the fashion. And, that he, Who casts to write a living line, must sweat, (Such as thine are) and strike the second heat...
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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare

Margreta de Grazia, Stanley Wells - 2001 - 352 pages
...the same poem 'small Latin and less Greek', he adds to his gift of nature the accomplishments of art: Yet must I not give nature all: thy art, My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a part. In Jonson's 1619 conversation with William Drummond of Hawthornden, he put his viewpoint much less...
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William Shakespeare: The Complete Works

William Shakespeare - 1989 - 1286 pages
...w;tty Plautus, now not please; But antiquated and deserted le, As they were not of Nature's family. ML*"' } gen*lew°me" Bending on Hero. MESSENGERS,...I. Before LEONATO' s house. Enter LEONATO, HERO, an that he Who casts to write a living line, must sweat, — Such as thine are, — and strike the second...
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William Shakespeare

Carol Dommermuth-Costa - 2001 - 120 pages
...witty Plautus, now not please; But antiquated and deserted lie As they were not of Nature's family. Yet must I not give Nature all; thy Art, My gentle...matter Nature be, His Art doth give the fashion. And that he Who casts to write a living line must sweat, (Such as thine are) and strike the second heat...
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The Shakespeare Game: The Mystery of the Great Phoenix

Ilʹi︠a︡ Gililov, Ilya Gililov - 2003 - 1002 pages
...witty Plautus, now not please; But antiauated, and deserted lie As they were not ofnature'sfamily. Yet must I not give nature all: thy art, My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy apart. For though the poet's matter, naturebe, His art doth give the fashion. And, that he, Who casts...
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The Shakespeare Enigma

Peter Dawkins - 2004 - 159 pages
...witty Plautus, now not please; But antiquated, and deserted lye As they were not of Nature's family. Yet must I not give Nature all: Thy Art, My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a part. For though the Poets matter, Nature be, His Art doth give the fashion. And that he Who calls to write a living line,...
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Why Shakespeare: An Introduction to the Playwright's Art

G. M. Pinciss - 2005 - 214 pages
..."nature's family" through vivid language and dramatize his material in carefully crafted works of art: "For though the poet's matter Nature be,/ His Art doth give the fashion." Jonson was thinking not only of the extraordinary range of characters in Shakespeare's comedies and...
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The Scientist as Rebel

Freeman Dyson - 2006 - 396 pages
...Nature herself was proud of his designs And joyed to wear the dressing of his lines — 'Yet I must not give Nature all: thy art, My gentle Shakespeare,...part, For though the poet's matter nature be, His art does give the fashion; and, that he Who casts to write a living line, must sweat, . . . For a good...
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Shakespeare: Essays aus Ungarn ; ausgewählt, übertragen und mit Anmerkungen ...

András Horn - 2008 - 210 pages
...witty Plautus, now notplease, But antiquated and deserted lie, As they were not of Nature's family. Yet must I not give Nature all; thy art, My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a part. [...] Und das vielzitierte Fazit: He was not of an age, but for all time! (Ben Jonson: The Complete...
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