 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 : this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.  Twelfth night. Winter's tale - Page 75by William Shakespeare - 1788Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 658 pages
...Which you suy adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, wemarry A gentler scion to the wildest stock ; And make conceive a bark of...art Which does mend nature, — change it rather: but The art itself is nature. Per. So it is. Pul. Then make your garden rich in gillyflowers, And do... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1843 - 566 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...art Which does mend nature, — change it rather: but The art itself is nature." § Perdita's flowers ! who can mention them, and not think of the wonderful... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 508 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...art Which does mend nature , — change it rather ; but The art itself is nature. Per. So it is. Pol. Then make your garden rich in gilly-Dowers , And... | |
 | Stanley Cavell - Philosophy - 1994 - 214 pages
...of consanguinity. In Polixenes' statement to Perdita, 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. (4.4.92^95) (which names the convention of grafting as what marriage is, marriage of different stocks... | |
 | Takashi Suzuki, Tsuyoshi Mukai - Literary Collections - 1993 - 302 pages
...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...art Which does mend nature. . . change it rather, but The art itself, is nature. Hamlet' s words should be taken as emphasising that 'Nature' makes 'an... | |
 | A. Dwight Baldwin, Judith De Luce, Carl Pletsch - Nature - 1994 - 294 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...is an art Which does mend Nature, change it rather; but The art itself is Nature. (4.4.83-97) We find similar ideas in other great Renaissance aesthetic... | |
 | Richard Burt - Political Science - 1994 - 420 pages
...Winter's Tale, when Perdita and Polixenes debate the value of hybrids and of "marrying a gentler scion to the wildest stock, / And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race"— an image, ironic in the dramatic context, drawn from an ordinary Shakespearean association of grafting... | |
 | Richard Burt - Political Science - 1994 - 420 pages
...Winter's Tale, when Perdita and Polixenes debate the value of hybrids and of "marrying a gentler scion to the wildest stock, / And make conceive a bark of baser kind. By bud of nobler race"—an image, ironic in the dramatic context, drawn from an ordinary Shakespearean association... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1995 - 164 pages
...(Which you say adds to nature) is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gender scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race.85 This is an art Which does mend nature — change it rather, but The art itself is nature. PERDITA... | |
 | Kenneth M. Price - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 392 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...an art Which does mend nature — change it rather: but The art itself is nature." Whitman has not failed to perceive this truth, but he fears that it... | |
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