 Yet nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes that mean: so, o'er that art, Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind...  Littell's Living Age - Page 1851851Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1833 - 1140 lehte
...Pol. Say, there be; Yet nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes that mean: so, o'er flint s ill day A most outrageous fit of madness took him;...mad as he,) Doing displeasure to the citizens By ru nobler race; This is an art Which does mend nature, — change it rather: but The art itself is nature.... | |
 | August Wilhelm von Schlegel - 1833 - 488 lehte
...will not bear the construction of the author. The whole runs thus: — Yet nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes that mean: so, o'er that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That iuinire makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock; And make conceive... | |
 | Thomas Phillips - 1833 - 522 lehte
...effectively, though somewhat enigmatically, defined by Shakspeare, who says : — " Nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes that mean : so o'er that art, Which we say adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. The art itself, is nature." * I said, in my last... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1834 - 368 lehte
...nature. Pol. Say there be : " Yet nature is made better by no mean, " But nature makes that mean. So ev'n that art, " Which you say adds to nature, is an art...makes ! You see, sweet maid, we marry " A gentler scyon to the wildest stock : " And make conceive a bark of ruder kind " By bud of nobler race. This... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1834 - 360 lehte
...nature. Pol. Say there he : " Yet nature is made better by no mean, " But nature makes that mean. So ev'n that art, " Which you say adds to nature, is an art...makes ! You see, sweet maid, we marry " A gentler scyon to (he wildest stock : " And make conceive a bark of ruder kind " By bud of nobler race. This... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 538 lehte
...Pol. Say there be, ' Yet 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 nature makes ; you see, sweet maid, We marry a gentle scyon to the wildest stock, ' And make conceive a bark of baser kind Bv 1)ud of nobler race.... | |
 | Howard B. White - 1970 - 174 lehte
...Winter's Tale which may help: Yet 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...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.29... | |
 | Barbara Newman - 2016 - 476 lehte
...Tale, one of Shakespeare's masquerade plays, the disguised king of Bohemia tells the disguised 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. This is an art Which does mend Nature, change it rather; but The art itself is Nature.91... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2002 - 244 lehte
...pageants. Antony — A&C IV.xiv How hard it is to hide the sparks of nature! Belarius — Cymbelme III. in 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.... | |
 | Laurie Shannon - 2002 - 255 lehte
...("no mean / But nature makes that mean"), the products of art are products of nature too: "so over that art / Which you say adds to nature, is an art / That nature makes" (lines 89—92). Polixenes goes on to detail the process of grafting, describing the placement of a... | |
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