 | 1879 - 592 pages
...in brasse as he hath hit His face : the print would then surpasse All that was ever done in brasse. But, since he cannot, reader look, Not on his picture but his booke. In this picture the head of the subject is represented as rising out of an horizontal plain... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1874 - 602 pages
...Wherein the graver had a strife With nature, to outdo the life : О could he but have drawn his vil As well in brass as he hath hit His face ; the print...cannot, reader, look Not on his picture, but his book. BEN JONSOK. VERBAL AND SENTENTIAL GLOSSARY, INDEXED. ADATE. To cast down in spirit, Cono. \ii. 3; to... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1875 - 510 pages
...strife With nature, to out-do 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...he cannot, reader, look Not on his picture, but his book.7 6 I have thought it best to interrupt the arrangement of the old folio, in this place, for the... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1875 - 510 pages
...strife With nature, to out-do 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...he cannot, reader, look Not on his picture, but his book.7 * I have thought it best to interrupt the arrangement of the old folio, in this place, for the... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 pages
...Shakspeare cut, Wherein the graver had a strife With nature; to outdo the life : О could he but have drawn his wit, As well in brass, as he hath hit His...cannot, reader, look Not on his picture, but his book.* SIR JOHN BEAUMONT. SIR JOHN BEAUMONT (1582-1628) was the elder brother of the celebrated dramatist.... | |
 | Robert Greene - 1876 - 576 pages
...strife With nature, to out-do 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. * Printed under Droeshout's engraving of Shakspeare's portrait, prefixed to the folio edition of his... | |
 | Karl Elze - 1876 - 672 pages
...Nature, to out-do the life: O, could he but have drawn his mt As well in brass , as he hath hit ffis face, the Print would then surpass All, that was ever writ in brass. But, since he eannof, Header, look Not on his Picture, but his Book. t Dies Lob klingt ohne Frage übertrieben. Hat... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1876 - 584 pages
...strife With Nature, to outdo the life: 0, could he but have drawn his wit .As well in brass, as he had hit His face, the print would then surpass All that was ever writ in brass, lint, fcince he cannot, Reader, look Not on his Picture, but his Book." — BJ Under these circumstances... | |
 | 1873 - 164 pages
...out-do the life. O could he but have drawn bis wit As well in brass, as he has hit His face, the ptint would then surpass All that was ever writ in brass....cannot, reader, look Not on his picture but his book. BJ" These lines by Ben Jonson recall those 146 >47 no less celebrated, said to be by him, and printed... | |
 | Washington Irving, Frederick William Fairholt - 1877 - 166 pages
...cut ; Wherein the graver had a strife With nature, to out-doo the life. OI could he but have drawne his wit As well in brass as he hath hit His Face, the Print would then surpasse All that was ever writ in brass. But since he cannot, reader, looke Not on his picture, but... | |
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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... 
