 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - 1870 - 534 pàgines
...Ben vouchsafes in his ' Timber.' He writes : — " 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. Which they thought a malevolent speech.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1913 - 502 pàgines
...1641: 'De Shakspeare nostrat. — Augustus in Hat. — 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. Which they thought a malevolent speech.... | |
 | John Milton, Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1874 - 576 pàgines
...testifies the same. " I remember," he says in his Discoveries, " 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 out a thousand ! Which they thought a ' malevolent... | |
 | David Masson - 1874 - 400 pàgines
...born 1625. Sen Jonson's own Sketch of Shakespeare.—" 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 !'; which they thought a malevolent speech.... | |
 | David Mather Masson - 1874 - 390 pàgines
...1625. Ben Jonson' s own Sketch of Shakespeare, — "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 ! ' ; which they thought a malevolent... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1875 - 560 pàgines
...mentioned it as an honour to Shakspeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, Would he had blotted a thousand. Which they thought a malevolent speech. I had not told posterity this, but for their ignorance, who chose that circumstance to commend their... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1875 - 728 pàgines
...own," &c. " I remember," says Ben Jonson in his Discoveries, " 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 ! Which they thought a malevolent speech.... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 pàgines
...as an honour to Shakspeare, that in his writing— whatsoever he penned — he never blotted out a ARROW. All the light of philosophy, natural and moral, is not sufficient, yea, the very knowledge of I had not told posterity this, but for their ignorance who chose that circumstance to commend their... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1877 - 464 pàgines
...mentioned it as an honour to Shakspeare that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been ' Would he had blotted a...thousand.' Which they thought a malevolent speech. I had not told posterity this, but for their ignorance who chose that circumstance to commend their... | |
 | Clement Mansfield Ingleby - 1877 - 200 pàgines
...that in his writing, (whatsoever he penn'd) he never blotted out [? one] line. My answer hath beene, would he had blotted a thousand. Which they thought a malevolent speech. I had not told posterity this, but for their ignorance, who choose that circumstance to commend their... | |
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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," which they thought a malevolent speech. 
