 | Ben Jonson - 1616 - 418 pàgines
...Shakspeer wanted arte.' Then recall that other saying, not to be found fault with, in the Discoveries : 'I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an...to Shakespeare, that in his writing (Whatsoever he penned) he never blotted a line. My answer hath been, Would he had blotted a thousand.' We are not... | |
 | Pliny (the Younger.), John Boyle Earl of Orrery - 1751 - 524 pàgines
...immortal SHAKESPEARE, we muft own the criticifm of BEN JOHNSON to be perfectly juft, where he fays a, " I remember the players " have often mentioned it as an honour to SHAKESPEARE, " that in his writing, whatfoever he penned, he never <( blotted out a line. My anfwer hath been, would be bad " llottid a... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 322 pàgines
...Jonson has made a sort of an essay towards it in his Discoveries, I will give it in his words : "I remember the players have often mentioned it " as an honour to Shakespeare, that in writing— what " soever. he penned — he never blotted out a line. " My answer hath been, Would lie... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 350 pàgines
...Jonson has made a sort of an essay towards it in his Discoveries, I will give it in his words : " I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, Would he had blotted... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - 550 pàgines
...Jonson has made a sort of an essay towards it in his Discoveries, I will give it in his words : " I remember the players have often mentioned it as\ " an honour to Shakespeare, that in writing (whatsoever he " penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath " been, Would he had blotted... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1844 - 600 pàgines
...old age, when, as he tells us, his memory began to fail, and printed with the date of 1641:— " 1 remember the players have often mentioned it as an...to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out line. My answer hath been, Would he had blotted a thousand ! which they... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 532 pàgines
..."Discoveries," written in old age, when as he tells us, his memory began to fail , and printed in 1641 : — "I remember the players have often mentioned it as an...to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out line. My answer hath been , Would he had blotted a thousand ! which they... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 598 pàgines
...old *%i>, when, as he tells us, his memory began to fail, and printed with the date of 1641 : — " I remember the players have often mentioned it as an...to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out line. My answer hath been, Would he had blotted a thousand ! which they... | |
 | 1874 - 898 pàgines
...conclusive evidence, however probable, that lie was the original author. I remember (says Ben Jonson) the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writings (whatsoever he penn'd) hee never blotted out a line. " We have only to suppose for a moment,"... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1853 - 442 pàgines
...old age, when, as he tells us, his memory began to fail, and printed with the date of lti41 : — "I remember the players have often mentioned it as an...to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out line. My answer hath been. Would he had blctted a, thousand ! whioh they... | |
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I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, Would he had blotted a thousand. 
