...the construction of the author. The whole runs thus : — Yet nature is made better by no mean, Bat nature makes that mean : so, o'er that art Which you...nature, change it rather ; but The art itself is nature. Winter's Tale, Act iv. Scene 3. Shakspeare does not here mean to institute a comparison between the...

...nature makes that mean : so, o'er that art Which you say adds to nature, is an art That nature makea. You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the...nature, change it rather ; but The art itself is nature. Winter's Tale, Act iv. Scene 3. Shakspeare does not here mean to institute a comparison between the...

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...I have heard it said, There is an art which, in their piedness, shares With great creating nature4. Pol. Say, there be ; Yet nature is made better by...— change it rather ; but The art itself is nature. P&: So it is. Pol. Then make your garden rich in gilly-flowers, And do not call them bastards. Per....

...that art, Which, you say, adds to nature, is an art That nature makes. You see, sweet maid, we many A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive...And do not call them bastards. Per. I'll not put The dibble in earth to set one slip of them : No more than, were I painted, I would wish This youth should...

...care not To get slips of them. Pol. Wherefore , gentle maiden , Do you neglect them? Per. For I have heard it said , There is an art which, in their piedness...Per. So it is. Pol. Then make your garden rich in gilly-Dowers , And do not call them bastards. Per. I 'll not put The dibble in earth to set one slip...

...nature. Pol. Say, there be ; Yet nature is made better by no mean, But nature makes that mean : so, over that art, Which, you say, adds to nature, is an art...— change it rather: but The art itself is nature." § Perdita's flowers ! who can mention them, and not think of the wonderful union of the accuracy of...

...o'er that art 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...rather: but The art itself is nature. Per. So it is. Pul. Then make your garden rich in gillyflowers, And do not call them bastards. Per. I 'll not put...

...Hapsburg are notorious instances of this ; and, as far as we are aware, there are no counter instances. " Marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make...nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature." The matter is incapable of absolute proof — we mean inductive proof ; for it is in this point that...

...piedness shares With great creating nature. Again he says : You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentle scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark...— change it rather ; but The art itself is nature. What a beautiful association does he here throw around early flowers : • Daffodils That come before...