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. The Works of William Shakespeare - Page 57by William Shakespeare - 1810Full view - About this book
| Joseph Allen Bryant - 1986 - 300 pages
...support her marriage to his son as prince of the realm: You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock. And make conceive a bark of...— change it rather; but The art itself is Nature. [V,iv.92-97] In Polixenes' mind, of course, Perdita is the "bark of baser kind" destined to be made... | |
| Ekbert Faas - 1986 - 244 pages
...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...Nature, change it rather, but The art itself is Nature, (iv.iv) It is distorting the facts to say that these words voice no more than an "orthodox" aesthetic... | |
| Frederick Burwick - 2010 - 357 pages
...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...nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature. (IV.iv.89-97) Aware of his son's attraction to a shepherd's daughter, King Polixenes, in his botanical... | |
| Takashi Suzuki, Tsuyoshi Mukai - 1993 - 302 pages
...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.... change it rather, but The art itself, is nature. Hamlet' s words should be taken as emphasising that 'Nature' makes 'an arf in drama. If Art itself... | |
| A. Dwight Baldwin, Judith De Luce, Carl Pletsch - 1994 - 294 pages
...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...Nature, change it rather; but The art itself is Nature. (4.4.83-97) We find similar ideas in other great Renaissance aesthetic theorists — the architects... | |
| Cheryll Glotfelty, Harold Fromm - 1996 - 466 pages
...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...Nature, change it rather; but The art itself is Nature. As usual, Shakespeare says it all: the subtext here is that Perdita is a base shepherdess who wants... | |
| Pauline Kiernan - 1998 - 236 pages
...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...- change it rather - but The art itself is nature. Perdita. So it is. Polixenes. Then make your garden rich in gillyvors, And do not call them bastards.... | |
| Kenneth M. Price - 1996 - 392 pages
...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...— change it rather: but The art itself is nature." Whitman has not failed to perceive this truth, but he fears that it may be abused. Meddling with nature... | |
| Northrop Frye, Professor Robert D Denham - 1997 - 592 pages
...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...Nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature. Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale [4.4.89—971 Nearly all the deeper questions dealt with by modern philosophers... | |
| Frederick Turner - 1999 - 232 pages
...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...Nature, change it rather; but The art itself is Nature. (IV.iv.88) The image that Polixenes uses to explain the relationship between nature and art (or rather,... | |
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