 | Augustine Skottowe - 1824 - 708 pages
...as established. " This figure that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakspeare cut ; Wherein the graver had a strife With nature, to out-do the...wit As well in brass, as he hath hit His face, the print would then surpass All that was ever writ in brass ; But since he cannot, reader, look Not on... | |
 | Augustine Skottowe - Dramatists, English - 1824 - 402 pages
...as established. " This figure that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakspeare cut ; Wherein the graver had a strife With nature, to out-do the...wit As well in brass, as he hath hit His face, the print would then surpass All that was ever writ in brass ; But since he cannot, reader, look Not on... | |
 | James Granger - 1824 - 800 pages
...him. TO THE READER. " This figure that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakespear cut ; Wherein the graver had a strife With nature, to out-do the...he but have drawn his wit As well in brass, as he has hit His face; the print would then surpass All that was ever writ in brass. But since he cannot,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 216 pages
...was for gentle Shakspeare cut; Wherein the graver had a strife With nature, to out-do the life. 0 , could he 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... | |
 | James Granger - Great Britain - 1824 - 580 pages
...seest put, It was for gentle Shakespear cut ; Wherein the graver had a strife With nature, to out-clo the life. O could he but have drawn his wit As well in brass, as he has hit His face ; the print would then surpass All that was ever writ in brass. But since he cannot,... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - Children's poetry - 1828 - 408 pages
...addressed to the reader : " This figure that thou seest here put, It was for gentle Shakspeare cut, Wherein the graver had a strife With nature to outdo the life...wit As well in brass, as he hath hit His face ; the print would then surpass All that was ever writ in brass. But since he cannot — reader, look w Not... | |
 | William West - Warwickshire (England) - 1830 - 860 pages
...acquainted with, our Poet. " The fiqure that thon see'st here put, It was for gentle Shakspeare cut ; lu which the graver had a strife With nature, to out-do...life. O ! could he but have drawn his wit, As well in brasse, as he hath hit His face, the piece would then surpasse All that was ever writ in brasse." In... | |
 | William Thomas Lowndes - English imprints - 1834 - 1130 pages
...seest put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut ; Wherein the Grarer had a strife With Nature, to out-doe the Life : O, could he but have drawn his Wit As well in Krasse, as he has hit His Face ; the Print would then surpasse All, that was ever writ in Brasse. But,... | |
 | Eliza Robbins - American poetry - 1842 - 352 pages
...It was for gentle Shakspeare cut, Wherein the graver had a strife With nature to outdo the life : 0, could he but have drawn his wit As well in brass, as he hath hit His face ; the print would then surpass All that was ever writ in brass. But since he cannot — reader, look Not... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 658 pages
...16^3 TO THE ККАDКR. This figure that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakspere cut, Wherein the graver had a strife With nature, to outdo the...he but have drawn his wit As well in brass, as he has hit His face; the print would then surpass All that was ever writ in brass : But since he eannot,... | |
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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... 
