...verses by Ben Jonson, which of themselves attest in some degree the truthfulness of the portrait : — " out •• i"" the life. 0, could he but have drawne his wit As well in brasse as he hath hit His face,...

...nature and art. Thus Ben Jonson, on the portrait of Shakespeare, prefixed to the folio of 1623 : ' Wherein the graver had a strife With Nature, to outdo the life.' 3 In a wide sea of wax ; referring to the ancient mode of writing on waxen tablets with the stylus,...

...engraved by Martin Droeshout, sculp., are the following lines, written by Ben Jonson : — TO THE READER. Wherein the graver had a strife With nature to outdo...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,...

...declares to be faithfully presented in the portrait given in the first folio edition of his works:— " This figure, that thou here see'st put, It was for...graver had a strife With Nature, to outdo the life. Oh, could he but have drawn his wit As well in brass as he hath hit His face, the prim would then surpass...

...see'st put, It was for gentle Shakspere cut, Wherein the graver had a strife With Nature, to outdoe the life ; O, could he but have drawn his wit As well in brasse as he hath hit His face, the print would then surpasse All that was ever writ in brasse ; But...

...vis-à-vis ce titre un feuillet contenant les vers suivants de Ben Johnson, imprimés ainsi : To the Reader, This Figure, that thou here seest put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut; AVherein the Grauer liad a strife with Nature, to out-doo the life: O, could he but haue drawne his...

...on the part of the players who issued the volume, for the correctness of the likeness. The lines — "This figure that thou here see'st put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut ;" and — " O could he bnt have drawne his wit As well in brasse as he hath hit His face : the Print...

...Jonson's celebrated lines:—- " This figure that thou here seest put, It is for princely Ismael Pacha cut; Wherein the graver had a strife With Nature to...he but have drawn his wit As well in brass, as he hath hit His face, the portrait would then surpass All that was ever writ in brass : But since he cannot,...

...attested by the following lines from the pen of Ben Jonson : — " This figure, that tliou here seeit put, It was for gentle Shakespeare cut ; Wherein the...strife With Nature, to outdo the life : O, could he but hare drawn his wit Ai well In brail, as he had hit Hii face, the print would then surpass All that...

...attests its accuracy in some lines which were printed under it, beginning, — " This figure Hint; thou here see'st put, It was for gentle Shakespeare...graver had a strife With nature, to outdo the life." There is a good deal of resemblance between this engraving and the bust, — a fact which corroborates...