 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...was for gentle Shakspcare cut, Wherein the graver had a strife With nature, to outdo the life : О of butter !—pitiful-hearted Titan, that melted at the met tale of the sun?— print would then вцграш All that was ever writ in brass : But since he cannot, reader, look Not... | |
 | John Britton - 1849 - 494 pages
...was for gentle Shakspere cut; Wherein the Graver had a strife With Nature, to out-do the life. Oh, could he but have drawn his wit, As well in brass as he hath hit His face; the print would then surpass All that was ever writ in brass. But, since he cannot, Reader, look Not on... | |
 | John Britton - 1849 - 394 pages
...was for gentle Shakspere cut ; Wherein the Graver had a strife With Nature, to out-do the life. Oh, could he but have drawn his wit, As well in brass as he hath hit His face ; the print would then surpass All that was ever writ in brass. But, since he cannot, Reader, look Not on... | |
 | Charles Vaughan Grinfield - Stratford-upon-Avon (England) - 1850 - 72 pages
...phrenologically * " 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 ; O could...he but have drawn his wit As well in brass, as he had hit His face, the print would then surpass—&c." BJ as if it had been adapted to the poet,—a... | |
 | Charles Vaughan Grinfield - Stratford-upon-Avon (England) - 1850 - 246 pages
...phrenologica " 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 ; O could...he but have drawn his wit As well in brass, as he had hit His face, the print would then surpass—Sec." BJ s if it had been adapted to the poet,—a... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1876 - 602 pages
...read them, which makes the allusion more interesting. Jonson laments that the graver could not " draw his wit as well in brass as he hath hit his face," and then adds :— " But, since he cannot, Reader, looke Not on his Picture, but his Booke." Which... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1853 - 916 pages
...was for gentle Shakespeare cut ; Wherein the Graver had a strife With Nature, to out-do the life : 0, 53 Print would then surpass All, that was ever writ in brass. But since he cannot, Reader, look Not at... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1853 - 716 pages
...It was for gentle Shakspeare cut, Wherein the graver had a strife With nature, to outdo the life : 0 could he but have drawn his wit, As well in brass, as he hath hit His face ; the print would then surpass All that was ever writ in brass : But since he cannot, reader, look Not on... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1853 - 442 pages
...was for gentle Shakespeare cut; Wherein the Graver had a strife With Nature, to out-do the life : 0, could he but have drawn his wit As well in brass, as he hath hit His face; the Print would then surpass All, that was ever writ in brass. But since he cannot, Reader, look Not at... | |
 | 1853 - 820 pages
...The ngurc thnt thon here seest put It was for gentle Shakspeare cut i Wherein the graver hod s etrlfe With nature to out-do the life. O, could he but have drawn hie wit AB well in brass, as he has hit Hie face, the print would then surpass All that was ever writ... | |
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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 surpass All that was ever writ in 
