 TO THE READER This figure that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakespeare 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 hath hit His face — the print would then...  Shaksper Not Shakespeare - Page 315by William Henry Edwards - 1900 - 507 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Sidney Beisly - 1864 - 200 pages
...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...face, the print would then surpass All that was ever writ in brass ; But since he cannot, reader look Not on his picture but his book. Mr. Grainger, in... | |
 | Stephen Watson Fullom - Dramatists, English - 1864 - 394 pages
...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... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1864 - 580 pages
...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... | |
 | 1864 - 402 pages
...see'st put, It was for gentle Shakspere cut, Wherein the graver had a strife With Nature, to outdoe the life ; O, could he but have drawn his wit As well in brasse as he hath hit His face, the print would then surpasse All that was ever writ in brasse ; But... | |
 | Jacques-Charles Brunet - Rare books - 1864 - 918 pages
...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... | |
 | Emmeline Lott - 1865 - 406 pages
...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...wit As well in brass, as he hath hit His face, the portrait would then surpass All that was ever writ in brass : But since he cannot, reader, look Not... | |
 | Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft - 1869 - 416 pages
...gentle Shakespeare cul; Wherein l he Graver had a slrife With Nature, to oul-do the life: 0, conld he but have drawn his wit As well in brass, as he...face, the Print would then surpass All, that was ever writ in brass. But, since he cannot, Reader, look Not on his Picture, but his Book. Dies Lob klingt... | |
 | Charles Knight - Dramatists, English - 1865 - 592 pages
...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...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 surpass All that... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1865 - 436 pages
...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... | |
 | Deutsche Shakespeare-Gesellschaft - 1869 - 446 pages
...Shakespeare cut; IV herein Ihe Gracer had a strife With Nature, to out- da the life: 0, could he but hace drawn his wit As well in brass, as he hath hit His face, the Print would then surpass All, that was ecer writ in brass. But, since he cannol, Reader, look Not OH his Piclure, but his Book. Dies Lob klingt... | |
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