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" By bud of nobler race : this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature. "
Characters of Shakespear's Plays - Page 185
by William Hazlitt - 1818 - 352 pages
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The wisdom and genius of Shakspeare: comprising moral philosophy ...

William Shakespeare - 1838 - 484 pages
...art, Which, you say, adds to nature, is an art, That nature makes. You see, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock ; And make conceive a bark of...— change it rather : but The art itself is nature. 1 1— ii. 1 . & 1 3— iv. 3. 34 Detraction. The greatest are misthought For things that others do...
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The complete works of William Shakspeare, with notes by the most ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1838 - 790 pages
...sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock : And make conceive a bark of baser kind lly udge of that which is proposed as its resemblance. bot The art itself is nature. Per. So it is. Pal. Then make your garden rich in gillyflowers, And do...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: Winter's tale. Comedy of errors ...

William Shakespeare - 1839 - 568 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. Per. So it is. Pol. Then make your garden rich in gilliflowers, And do not call them bastards. Per....
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The Wisdom and Genius of Shakespeare: Comprising Moral Philosophy ...

William Shakespeare, Thomas Price - 1839 - 478 pages
...art, Which, you say, adds to nature, is an art, That nature makes. You see, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock ; And make conceive a bark of...— change it rather : but The art itself is nature. 11— ii. 1. & 13— iv. 3. 34 Detraction. The greatest are misthought For things that others do ;...
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Selections from the Works of Taylor, Latimer, Hall, Milton, Barrow, South ...

Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 pages
...abilities. I cannot contemn a man for ignorance, but behold him with as much pity as I do Lazarus. And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler...nature, change it rather ; but The art itself is nature. Winter's Tale. Natural History is subject to a threefold division. For nature is either free and displaying...
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Feeding the Ten Billion: Plants and Population Growth

L. T. Evans - 1998 - 268 pages
...Tale, when Perdita spurns the hybrid carnations 'which some call nature's bastards', Polixenes replies 'This is an art which does mend nature - change it rather - but the art itself is nature'. In early maize crops that art was indeed natural, given both the openpollinated breeding system of...
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Shakespeare's Twenty-First Century Economics: The Morality of Love and Money

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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The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America

Leo Marx - 2000 - 428 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. The context, it is generally conceded, lends Shakespeare's support to Polixenes' view of the matter:...
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Shakespeare on Love and Friendship

Allan Bloom - 2000 - 172 pages
...influence of this girl, makes the following reflection: 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. (IV.iv.92-95) Here he speaks as the kind of eugenicist recommended in The Republic, where the philosopher...
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Shakespeare Survey: Volume 53, Shakespeare and Narrative: An Annual Survey ...

Peter Holland - 2000 - 376 pages
...piece Perdita argues for nature; Polixenes for nurture: 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. 4.4.92-5 Yet such creations are shunned by Perdita who twice remarks that such 'slips' will never enter...
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