...2, 99. Bone, 1) the solid part of the body: tires with her beak on feathers, flesh and b. Ven. 56. so did this horse excel a common one, in shape, in courage, colour, pace and b. 294. no hand of blood and b. R2 III, 3, 79. nerve and b. of Greece, Troil. 1, 3, 55. vigour ofb....

...trappings gay? He sees his love, and nothing else he sees, For nothing else with his proud sight agrees. Look when a painter would surpass the life In limning out a well-proportioned steed, His art with nature's workmanship at strife, As if the dead the living should...

...describing Adonis's horse: Look when a painter would surpass the life In limning out a well-proportioned steed, His art with nature's workmanship at strife, As if the dead the living should exceedSo did this horse excel a common one, In shape, in courage, colour, pace, and bone, (289-94;...

...trapping gay? He sees his love, and nothing else he sees, For nothing else with his proud sight agrees. Look, when a painter would surpass the life In limning out a well-proportion 'd steed, His art with nature's workmanship at strife, As if the dead the living should...

...deed was done. . . . So workmanly the blood and tears are drawn. ( Ind.ii.57; 61) in Venus and Adonis: Look when a painter would surpass the life In limning...at strife, As if the dead the living should exceed. (289-292) in Cymbeline: it was hang'd With tapestry of silk and silver, the story Proud Cleopatra,...

...agrees is agreeable to Look when a painter would surpass the life 290 In limning out a well-proportioned steed, His art with nature's workmanship at strife,...should exceed; So did this horse excel a common one 294 In shape, in courage, color, pace and bone. 295 Round-hoofed, short-jointed, fetlocks shag and...

...trappings gay? He sees his love, and nothing else he sees, For nothing else with his proud sight agrees. Look when a painter would surpass the life, In limning out a well-proportioned steed, His an with nature's workmanship at strife, As if the dead the living should...

...citing Peacham, Lyly, Angel Day and Haydocke.6 In Venus and Adonis, Shakespeare wrote of an "art w ith nature's workmanship at strife, / As if the dead the living should exceed" (291-92). In the introduction to The Taming of the Shrew Christopher Sly is promised a sight of pictures...

...nothing else with his proud sight agrees' (l. 288-9). Like a painter trying to 'surpass the life', 'His art with Nature's workmanship at strife / As...should exceed: / So did this horse excel a common one' (ll. 291-3). The horse is both a worthy object of poetic description and a subject-creator of his passion,...

...already (and more laboriously) expressed in the lines about the perfection of the young hunter's courser: Look, when a painter would surpass the life. In limning...at strife, As if the dead the living should exceed. (289-92) When it came to express the power of love, few 'exempla' were as classical and suggestive...