 | William Shakespeare - 1878 - 408 pàgines
...the Discoveries, is too interesting to be omitted. " 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, Ben Jonson - 1879 - 844 pàgines
...it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever lie penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, Would he had blotted a thousand. Which they thought a malevolent speeeh. I had not told posterity this, but for their ignorance, who chose that circumstance to commend... | |
 | 1881 - 578 pàgines
...old." DE SHAKESPEARE NOSTRAT — AUGUSTUS ra HAT.— I remember, the players have often mentioned it apers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment a line. My answer hath been, "Would he had blotted a thousand. " Which they thought a malevolent speech.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1881 - 572 pàgines
...Alluding to the well-known saying of Ben Jonson : " I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that, in his writing, whatsoever he penned, he Ev'n copious Dryden wanted, or forgot, The last and greatest art, the art to blot' Some doubt if equal... | |
 | John Genest - 1882 - 720 pàgines
...have often mentioned it as " an honour to Shakspeare, that in his writing he " never blotted out a line — my answer hath been, " would he had blotted...thousand — which they " thought a malevolent speech— I had not told pos" terity this, but for their ignorance, who chose that " circumstance to commend... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1883 - 596 pàgines
...mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing, whatsoever he penn'd, 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 choose that circumstance to commend their... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1883 - 612 pàgines
...mentioned it as an honor to Shak.«peare, 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 choose that circumstance to commend their... | |
 | Christian ethics - 1883 - 296 pàgines
...need to ask for my corrections." " I remember," says Ben Jonson, " 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 ! " Hasty writing is, at least, a presumptive... | |
 | Caroline Wells Healey Dall - 1885 - 232 pàgines
...portrait to the well-known features of Francis Bacon without a supreme sense of the ridiculous : — " I remember the players have often mentioned, as an...his writing, whatsoever he penned, he never blotted a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand, which they thought a malevolent speech.... | |
 | George F. Crook - 1885 - 106 pàgines
...necessary he should be stopped." What do Rare Ben's following remarks imply? "I remember the playecs have often mentioned, as an honour to Shakespeare,...his writing, whatsoever he penned, he never blotted a line." We cull the following: "William Shakespeare was born at Stratford.on.Avon in this county,... | |
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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. 
