 | Sarah Warner Brooks - 1890 - 518 Seiten
...Wherein the graver had a strife With nature, to outdo the life. O could he but have drawn his wit A3 well in brass as he hath hit His face, the print would then surpass All that wag ever writ in brass ! But since he cannot , reader, look Not on his picture, but his book." In Jonson's... | |
 | Edwin Reed - 1891 - 120 Seiten
...reference to the engraver's art, is an extract : " O, could he but have drawn his wit As well in brasse as he hath hit His face, the print would then surpass All that was ever writ in brasse." It is a straw, but one carrying with it, perhaps, "the wisdom of the fathers," that in this... | |
 | 1902 - 732 Seiten
...appalling Droeshont " Sign-board " that if theartist could but have drawn the wit of the original — " As well in brass as he hath hit His face, the Print would then surpass All that was ever wrote in brass," Here, before passing on, let us note that the Stratford player appears to have spelt... | |
 | Thomas Ebenezer Webb - 1902 - 350 Seiten
...author of the greatest works of genius that the world has ever seen, all he has to say is this — The print would then surpass All that was ever writ in brass* Jonson could not have spoken more contemptuously of Pantalabus the Poet-ape. Dryden long ago declared... | |
 | William Salt Brassington - 1903 - 394 Seiten
...strife With nature to outdo 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 All, that...cannot, Reader, look Not on his picture, but his book." The same engraving was used in the second folio of 1632, and again in the third folio, 1664, though... | |
 | John Hawley Stotsenburg - 1904 - 556 Seiten
...Jonson referred to in his address to the reader in the Folio, when he said, " Oh, could he but have drawn his wit As well in brass, as he hath hit His face." White's proposition secured unanimous assent and thereupon a messenger was summoned and the request... | |
 | 1905 - 1008 Seiten
...place of gentle Shakespeare was put this thing, and if the artist had been a little more successful "the print would then surpass all that was ever writ in brass." But under the circumstances we are instructed to look not at the picture but at the book. This seems a... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1874 - 844 Seiten
...With Nature, to outdo the life : O could he but have drawn his wit As well in brass as he hath hit The face, the print would then surpass All that was ever...cannot, reader, look Not on his picture but his book." We asked the question just now whether there was any more beautiful poem of Ben Jonson's than this.... | |
 | 1908 - 304 Seiten
...Reader " opposite to it, were for me for many years a puzzle. In the lines : " O, could he but have drawn his wit As well in brass as he hath hit His face," etc., Ben Jonson seems to express a highly favourable judgment of the print as a portrait. Further,... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1909 - 636 Seiten
...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 surpass All that...cannot, reader, look Not on his picture, but his book. B. JONSON (In the First Folio of Shakespeare's Works, 1623). 521. TRUTH TRUTH is the trial of itself,... | |
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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 surpass All... 
