 In limning out a well-proportion'd steed, His art with nature's workmanship at strife, As if the dead the living should exceed ; So did this horse excel a common one In shape, in courage, colour, pace, and bone.  The Retrospective Review - Page 3841823Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Schmidt, Gregor Sarrazin - Literary Collections - 1971 - 782 pages
...2, 99. Bone, 1) the solid part of the body: tires with her beak on feathers, flesh and b. Ven. 56. so did this horse excel a common one, in shape, in courage, colour, pace and b. 294. no hand of blood and b. R2 III, 3, 79. nerve and b. of Greece, Troil. 1, 3, 55. vigour ofb.... | |
 | Leonard R. N. Ashley - England - 1988 - 330 pages
...trappings gay? He sees his love, and nothing else he sees, For nothing else with his proud sight agrees. Look when a painter would surpass the life In limning out a well-proportioned steed, His art with nature's workmanship at strife, As if the dead the living should... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1992 - 324 pages
...describing Adonis's horse: Look when a painter would surpass the life In limning out a well-proportioned steed, His art with nature's workmanship at strife, As if the dead the living should exceedSo did this horse excel a common one, In shape, in courage, colour, pace, and bone, (289-94;... | |
 | William Shakespeare - English poetry - 1994 - 212 pages
...trapping gay? He sees his love, and nothing else he sees, For nothing else with his proud sight agrees. Look, when a painter would surpass the life In limning out a well-proportion 'd steed, His art with nature's workmanship at strife, As if the dead the living should... | |
 | Pauline Kiernan - Drama - 1998 - 236 pages
...deed was done. . . . So workmanly the blood and tears are drawn. ( Ind.ii.57; 61) in Venus and Adonis: Look when a painter would surpass the life In limning...at strife, As if the dead the living should exceed. (289-292) in Cymbeline: it was hang'd With tapestry of silk and silver, the story Proud Cleopatra,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Poetry - 1999 - 212 pages
...agrees is agreeable to Look when a painter would surpass the life 290 In limning out a well-proportioned steed, His art with nature's workmanship at strife,...should exceed; So did this horse excel a common one 294 In shape, in courage, color, pace and bone. 295 Round-hoofed, short-jointed, fetlocks shag and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1999 - 102 pages
...trappings gay? He sees his love, and nothing else he sees, For nothing else with his proud sight agrees. Look when a painter would surpass the life, In limning out a well-proportioned steed, His an with nature's workmanship at strife, As if the dead the living should... | |
 | Heinrich Franz Plett, Peter Lothar Oesterreich, Thomas O. Sloane - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 566 pages
...citing Peacham, Lyly, Angel Day and Haydocke.6 In Venus and Adonis, Shakespeare wrote of an "art w ith nature's workmanship at strife, / As if the dead the living should exceed" (291-92). In the introduction to The Taming of the Shrew Christopher Sly is promised a sight of pictures... | |
 | Michael Hattaway - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 800 pages
...nothing else with his proud sight agrees' (l. 288-9). Like a painter trying to 'surpass the life', 'His art with Nature's workmanship at strife / As...should exceed: / So did this horse excel a common one' (ll. 291-3). The horse is both a worthy object of poetic description and a subject-creator of his passion,... | |
 | Allardyce Nicoll - Drama - 2002 - 220 pages
...already (and more laboriously) expressed in the lines about the perfection of the young hunter's courser: Look, when a painter would surpass the life. In limning...at strife, As if the dead the living should exceed. (289-92) When it came to express the power of love, few 'exempla' were as classical and suggestive... | |
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