 | Leonard R. N. Ashley - 1988 - 330 pages
...mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penn'd) he never blotted out line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a...told posterity this, but for their ignorance, who choose that circumstance to commend their friend by, wherein he most faulted. And to justify mine own... | |
 | Don Gifford, Robert J. Seidman - 1988 - 704 pages
...plays: "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 hath blotted a thousand. Which they thought a malevolent speech. I had not told posterity this but... | |
 | Edward Le Comte - 1991 - 168 pages
...reminisced, "I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honor to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line....answer hath been, "Would he had blotted a thousand!'" This is the slow writer envying the fast one. Milton, Jonson's heir as a classicist, also considered... | |
 | Michael J. Sidnell - 1991 - 332 pages
...players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare that in his writing fwhatsoever he pennedl he never blotted out a line, My answer hath been, 'Would he had blotted a thousand', which they took for a malevolent speech. I had not told posterity this but for their ignorance, who choose that... | |
 | James Shapiro - 1991 - 234 pages
...Discoveries: I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honor to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he have blotted a thousand. Which they thought a malevolent speech. I had not told posterity this, but... | |
 | R. B. Parker, Sheldon P. Zitner - 1996 - 340 pages
...mentioned as an honour 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 thought a malevolent speech. . . . [He] had an excellent fantasy, brave notions, and gentle expression; wherein he flowed with that... | |
 | George Eliot - 1996 - 576 pages
...mentioned it as an honour to Shakspeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted a line. My answer hath been, 'Would he had blotted a thousand!' ... I loved the man & do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was indeed honest,... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pages
...Parfitt (1975). 4 The players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing, whatsoever he penned, he never blotted out [a] line....answer hath been, "Would he had blotted a thousand." BEN JONSON, (c. 1572-1637) British dramatist, poet. Timber, or Discoveries Made upon Men and Matter,... | |
 | James Ogden, Arthur Hawley Scouten - 1997 - 316 pages
...mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare that in his writing (whatsoever he penn'd) hee never blotted out line. My answer hath been would he had blotted a thousand. Which they thought a malevolent speech." 10 Discussions of revision have sometimes been greeted with malevolence, and nowhere has this been... | |
 | Jonathan Bate - 1998 - 420 pages
...notebook: 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....told posterity this, but for their ignorance, who choose that circumstance to commend their friend by, wherein he most faulted. And to justify mine own... | |
| |
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. 
