 | William Leighton - 1879 - 92 Seiten
...friend and companion, in the following lines printed in the Folio, on the page opposite the portrait: "This Figure, that thou here seest put, It was for...; Wherein the Graver had a strife With Nature, to out-do the life : O, could he but have drawn his wit As well in brasse, as he hath hit His face ; the... | |
 | Walter Hamilton - 1879 - 348 Seiten
...and " Sweet Swan of Avon," now generally applied to Shakespeare, first occur in these poems : — " This figure that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut." And, Whilst Jonson was at Hawthornden, Drummond made notes of much of his conversation, merely for... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1879 - 494 Seiten
...follows : This Figure, that thou here Fccst put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut; Wherein the Cirauer had a strife with Nature, to out-doo the life; O, could he but haue drawne his wit As well in brasse, as he hath hit His face; the Print would then surposse All.... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson - 1879 - 844 Seiten
...Welcome all who lead or follow, To the Oracle of Apollo. ON THE PORTRAIT OF SHAKESPEARE.1 TO THE HEADER. This figure that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut, * Simon Wndloe, who then kept the Devil Tavern ; and of him, probably, is the old catch, beginning,... | |
 | Horace Hills Morgan - 1880 - 474 Seiten
...die : Which in life did harbour give To more virtue than doth live. ON TUK PORTRAIT OF SHAKESPEARE. This figure that thou here seest put. It was for gentle...cut. Wherein the graver had a strife With nature, to outdo the life : O could he but have drawn his wit. Aa woll in brass, as he hath hit UU f;uv ; tho... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Henry Norman Hudson - 1880 - 570 Seiten
...accompany it, and which we are almost bound to accept as the sincere expression of his opinion " : This figure, that thou here see'st put, It was for...; 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... | |
 | Appleton Morgan - 1881 - 366 Seiten
...fine engraving of Chapman." Under this engraving is printed a copy of Jonson's lines, as follows : TO THE READER. This figure that thou here seest put,...gentle Shakespeare cut; Wherein the graver had a strife l With nature to outdo the life: O, could he but have drawn his wit As well in brasse as he hath hit... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1881 - 1138 Seiten
...lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die. Jons MILTON. LINES ox THE PORTRAIT OF SHAKESPEARE. scends the mystic Dove. outdo the life: Oh, could he but have drawn his wit As well in brass, as he hath hit His face ; the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1881 - 304 Seiten
...accompany it, and which we are almost bound to accept as the sincere expression of his opinion " : This figure, that thou here see'st put, • It was...; 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... | |
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This Figure, that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut... 
