...casts to write a living line must sweat, (Such as thine are) and strike the second heat Upon the Muses' anvil: turn the same, And himself with it, that he...poet's made, as well as born. And such wert thou! The tributes given to William Shakespeare have never been given to any other poet or playwright. In...

...to write a living line, must sweat, (Such as thine are) and strike the second heat Upon the muses' anvil: turn the same, (And himself with it) that he...a scorn, For a good poet's made, as well as born. Then come some lines that sound queer enough in English, and are always rendered into Russian approximately...

...tribute: Who casts to write a living line, must sweat, . . . and strike the second heat Upon the Muses' anvil: turn the same, (And himself with it) that he...a scorn, For a good poet's made, as well as born. "Art had so little ... a share in what he did"? No judgment wider of the truth than this one. Shakespeare's...

...that the playwright's "art doth give the fashion" (1, 58): For a good Poet's made, as well as bom. And such wert thou. Look how the father's face Lives...Shakespeare's mind, and manners brightly shines In his well turned and true filed lines: In each of which, he seems to shake a lance, As brandished at the...