...part. For though the poet's matter nature be, His art doth give the fashion ; and, that he Who casts to write a living line, must sweat (Such as thine...Or for the laurel, he may gain a scorn ; For a good poet's made as well as born. And such wert thou ! Look how the father's face Lives in his issue, even...

...part : For though the poet's matter nature be, His art doth give the fashion ; and that he Who casts to write a living line, must sweat, — Such as thine...for the laurel, he may gain a scorn, — For a good poet's made, as well as born : And such wert thou. Look how the father's face Lives in his issue ;...

...: — For though the poet's matter nature be, His art doth give the fashion : and that he Who oasts to write a living line, must sweat, (Such as thine...poet 's made, as well as born : And such wert thou." Having disposed, then, of these general considerations of the value of the quarto copies, we have to...

...a part For though the poet's matter nature be, His art doth give the fashion: and that he Who casts to write a living line must sweat (Such as thine are),...for the laurel he may gain a scorn, — For a good poet's made as well as born : And such wert thou. Look how the father's face Lives in his issue ; even...

...the great poet had not been merely born, but made: — '• For a good poet 's made as well as bora, And such wert thou. Look, how the father's face Lives...his issue ; even so the race Of Shakespeare's mind arid manners brightly shines, In his well-turned and true-filed lines; In each of which he seems to...

..." spare or pass by a jest." Jonson also writes of " my gentle Shakespeare," — "that he Who casts to write a living line, must sweat, (Such as thine are) and strike the second heat Upon the Muses anvile." And so, according to the Dedication and Preface, " Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories,...

...part For though the poet's matter Nature be, 1 1 is art doth give the fashion : and that he Who casts to write a living line must sweat (Such as thine are),...gain a scorn, — For a good poet 's made as well as bom : And such wert thou." There can be no difficulty in understanding Jonson's dispraise of Shakspere,...

...part. For though the poet's matter Nature be, His art doth give the fashion : and that he Who casts to write a living line must sweat (Such as thine are),...heat . • Upon the Muses' anvil : turn the same (And kimsclf with it) that he thinks to frame ; Or, for the laurel, he may gain a scorn, — For a good...

...— For though the Poet's matter, Nature be, His Art doth give the fashion. And, that he, Who casts to write a living line, must sweat, (Such as thine are) and strike the second heat Upon the Muse's anvil ; turn the same, (And himself with it) that he thinks to frame ; Or, for the laurel, he...

...poetical art, saying that if the poet trust too much to the " poeta nascitur, rum fit " of Cicero, " For the laurel he may gain a scorn, For a good poet 's made as well as born." Wordsworth, too, has expressed himself most unequivocally on this subject : — " 0 many are the poeta...