 | Caroline Wells Healey Dall - 1885 - 216 pàgines
...mentioned, as an honour to Shakespeare, that, in 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. I had not told posterity this, but for their ignorance, who choose that circumstance to commend their... | |
 | 1886 - 230 pàgines
...as opinion in our own day goes, could do no wrong : " 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 out a thousand ! which they thought a malevolent... | |
 | Victor Hugo - 1886 - 472 pàgines
...relates (ix. 175, Gifford's edition) : " I recollect that the players often mentioned it as an honor to Shakespeare that, in his writing, whatsoever he penned, he never blotted out a line ; I answered, ' Would to God he had blotted out a thousand ! ' " This wish, moreover, was granted... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1887 - 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... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - 1887 - 572 pàgines
...old." DK SHAEESPEARE NOSTRAT — AUGUSTOS is Нay.— I remember, the players have often mentioned it a line. My answer hath been, "Would he had blotted a thousand." Which they thought a malevolent speech.... | |
 | Marion Vienna Churchill Dudley - 1887 - 318 pàgines
...to Shakespeare," says Jonson in his Discoveries, " that he never blotted out a line. My answer has been: would he had blotted a thousand! which they thought a malevolent speech, who chose that circumstance to commend their friend by, wherein he most faulted. He was indeed honest,... | |
 | Frank Milton Bristol - 1887 - 182 pàgines
...Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penn'd) hee never blotted out 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... | |
 | Frank Milton Bristol - 1887 - 178 pàgines
...Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penn'd) hee never blotted out 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... | |
 | Rush Christopher Hawkins - 1887 - 412 pàgines
...Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penn'd) hee never blotted out 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... | |
 | 1888 - 746 pàgines
...Jonson über Shakspere:') De Shakespeare nostral. — 1 remember, the players have oflen 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.... | |
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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. 
