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" Yet must I not give Nature all; thy art, My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a part. For though the poet's matter nature be, His art doth give the fashion; and, that he Who casts to write a living line, must sweat, (Such as thine are) and strike the second... "
Shakspere: His Inner Life as Intimated in His Works - Page 8
by John Abraham Heraud - 1865 - 521 pages
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The Poems of Robert Greene, Christopher Marlowe, and Ben Jonson

Robert Greene, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson - English poetry - 1876 - 576 pages
...must enjoy a part. For though the poet's matter nature be, His art doth give the fashion: and, that he Who casts to write a living line, must sweat, (Such...as thine are) and strike the second heat Upon the Muse's anvil; turn the same, And himself with it, that he thinks to frame; Or for the laurel, he may...
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English Renaissance Poetry: a Collection of Shorter Poems from Skelton To ...

Poetry - 460 pages
...must enjoy a part. For though the Poet's matter nature be, His art doth give the fashion. And, that he Who casts to write a living line, must sweat, (Such...For a good poet's made, as well as born. And such wcrt thou. Look how the father's face Lives in his issue; even so the race Of Shakespeare's mind and...
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Rival Playwrights: Marlowe, Jonson, Shakespeare

James Shapiro - English drama - 1991 - 234 pages
...emerges most clearly: For though the poet's matter nature be, His art doth give the fashion. And that he Who casts to write a living line must sweat (Such...poet's made, as well as born; And such wert thou. Look how the father's face Lives in his issue: even so, the race Of Shakespeare's mind and manners...
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The Columbia Granger's Dictionary of Poetry Quotations

Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...though the poet's matter Nature be, His art doth give the fashion; and, that he Jonson POETRY QUOTATIONS ey, The weak of will, the strong of arm, the clown,...fish-frys of long ago, Of the horse-races of long ago (1. 50-59) 46 Sweet Swan of Avon! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear, (1. 66-67)...
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The Consumption of Culture, 1600-1800: Image, Object, Text

Ann Bermingham, John Brewer - 1995 - 668 pages
...he sought for himself: For though the poet's matter nature be, His art doth give the fashion . . . For a good poet's made, as well as born; And such wert thou. Look how the father's face Lives in his issue: even so, the race Of Shakespeare's mind and manners...
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 1290 pages
...must enjoy a pan: For though the poet's matter nature be, His art doth give the fashion; and that he r, farewell, Brutus! If we do meet again, we'll smile...then, lead on. — O, that a man might know The end Look how the father's face Lives in his issue; even so the race Of Shakespeare's mind and manners brightly...
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Stoicism, Politics and Literature in the Age of Milton: War and Peace Reconciled

Andrew Shifflett - History - 1998 - 196 pages
...body, or (generally) by force; to force." Cf. "To . . . Mr. William Shakespeare": "Who casts to urite a living line, must sweat, / (Such as thine are) and strike the second heat / Upon the Muses anvile: turne the same, / (And himselfe with it) that he thinkes to frame" (BJ VIII. 392). 18 Jonson...
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Shakespeare and the Literary Tradition

Stephen Orgel, Sean Keilen - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 356 pages
...enjoy a part. For though the Poets matter, Nature be, His Art doth give the fashion. And, that he, Who casts to write a living line, must sweat, (Such as thine are) and strike the second heat "Ben Jonian, VIII, 583-584 (Discoveriet) . ""Satyra prima", line 109, in Satyres: and SatyriaU Epigrams...
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A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture

Michael Hattaway - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 800 pages
...enjoy a part. For though the poet's matter, nature be, His art doth give the fashion. And, that he, Who casts to write a living line, must sweat, (Such...poet's made, as well as born. And such wert thou. (1l. 55-65) As a characterization of Ben Jonson at work, the above is and has always been entirely...
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Henry V. EG: The Shakespeare Folios

William Shakespeare - Drama - 2001 - 272 pages
...memory of my beloved': each 'must sweat . . . and strike the second heat | Upon the Muse's anvil . . . For a good poet's made, as well as born. | And such wert thou.' This is not to say, of course, that the First Folio can exactly be likened, for example, to the Macmillan...
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