 | English literature - 1808 - 606 pages
...strife With nature, to outdo the life. O, could he but bave drawn his wit As well in brass, as he hath hit His face, the print would then surpass All that...cannot, reader look, Not on his picture, but his book/ — — ' Soul of the age, The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage, My Shakespeare rise! I will... | |
 | Octavius Gilchrist - 1808 - 74 pages
...strife With nature, to out-do the life. O, could he but have drawn his wit As well in brass, *; he hath hit His face, the print would then surpass All that...writ in brass; But since he cannot, reader, look, Co tfje e©emorj? of MY BELOVED, THE AUTHOR, MR. WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE, AND WHAT HE HATH LEFT US. To draw... | |
 | John Walker - 1811 - 574 pages
...out-do the life. O could he but have drawn his wit As well in brass as he hath hit His face, the piece would then surpass All that was ever writ in brass. But since he cannot, &c. BJ In these verses Ben plainly asserts, that if the engraver could have drawn Shakespeare's wit... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Capel Lofft - 1812 - 544 pages
...strife With nature, to outdo 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 that...cannot, reader look, Not on his picture, but his book.' B. f . 3Co tfje £l?t mor;> of MT BELOVED, THE AUTHOR, MR, WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE*, And -what he hath... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - Dramatists, English - 1816 - 482 pages
...seest put, It was for gentle SHAKSPEARE cut, Wherein the graver had a strife With nature, to out-do the life : O could he but have drawn his wit As well...cannot, reader, look Not on his picture, but his book.' * I have thought it best to interrupt the arrangement of the old folio, in this place, for tha sake... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1816 - 832 pages
...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 that...in brass ; But since he cannot, reader, look Not on bis Picture but his Book.] Of the portrait, thus authenticated, Mr.Britton says, "It would not be diffi-'... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Dramatists, English - 1817 - 708 pages
...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 that...cannot, reader, look, Not on his picture, but his book." Between the wretched engraving, thus undeservedly eulogised, and the monumental bust at Stratford,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 728 pages
...but have drawn his wit ' As well in brass, as he hath hit ' His face, the print would then surpass 4 All that was ever writ in brass ; ' But since he cannot,...reader, look ' Not on his picture, but his book." Droeshout engraved also the heads of John Fox the martyrologist, Montjoy Blount, son of Charles Blount... | |
 | Augustine Skottowe - 1824 - 708 pages
...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 that...cannot, reader, look Not on his picture, but his book." Without the reader has had the misfortune to behold this much eulogised specimen of the graphic art,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 216 pages
...but have drawn his wit As well in brass , as he hath hit His face , the jn int. woidd then surpass AH that was ever writ in brass ; But since he cannot, reader, look Not on his picture, but his book." Without the reader has had the misfortune to behold this much eulogised specimen of the graphic art,... | |
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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... 
