 | William Shakespeare - 1874 - 626 pages
...POL. Wherefore, gentle maiden, Do you neglect them ? PER. For I have heard it said, There is an art which, in their piedness, shares With great creating...stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race : this is an art Which does mend nature, — change it rather ; but The art itself is nature.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1874 - 544 pages
...tjiken with the context, will not bear th« construction of '.lie critic. The whole runs thus : — " Yet nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes...; And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race : this is an art Which docs mend nature, change it rather ; but The art itself is nature."—... | |
 | Charles Roach Smith - England - 1874 - 102 pages
...nature. Polixenes. Say, there be ; Yet nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes that meaji : so, o'er that art Which you say adds to nature, is...stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race : this is an art AVhich does mend nature, — change it, rather ; but The art itself is... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1874 - 584 pages
...down! DBYDEN. ART AND NATURE. NATURE is made better by no mean, But Nature makes that mean: so over that Art Which you say adds to Nature is an Art That...wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By buds of nobler race. This is an Art Which does mend Nature, change it rather; but The Art itself is... | |
 | Ekbert Faas - Art - 1986 - 244 pages
...self-realization of nature: Say there be; Yet Nature is made better by no mean But Nature makes that mean; so over art, Which you say adds to Nature, is an art, That...stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race. This is an art Which does mend Nature, change it rather, but The art itself is Nature,... | |
 | Joseph Allen Bryant - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 300 pages
...understand, an application of his argument that will support her marriage to his son as prince of the realm: You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the...stock. And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race. This is an art Which does mend Nature — change it rather; but The art itself is Nature.... | |
 | Frederick Burwick - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 357 pages
...complicated it. Schlegel refers to a passage from The Winter's Tale: Yet nature is made better by no mean, Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature...stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race: this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.... | |
 | Stanley Cavell - Philosophy - 1994 - 214 pages
...question would seem to be some forbidden degree of consanguinity. In Polixenes' statement to Perdita, You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the...stock. And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race. (4.4.92^95) (which names the convention of grafting as what marriage is, marriage of different... | |
 | Takashi Suzuki, Tsuyoshi Mukai - Literary Collections - 1993 - 302 pages
...Tale, IV. iv. 89-92)4: . . . nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes that mean: so, over that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That...stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race. This is an art Which does mend nature. . . change it rather, but The art itself, is nature.... | |
 | A. Dwight Baldwin, Judith De Luce, Carl Pletsch - Nature - 1994 - 294 pages
...FOLIXENES: Say there be; Yet Nature is made better by no mean Bnt Nature makes that mean; so, o'ver that art, Which you say adds to Nature, is an art...stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind by bud of nobler race. This is an art Which does mend Nature, change it rather; but The art itself is Nature.... | |
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You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race: this is an art Which does mend nature, — change it rather; but The art itself is nature. 
