...term ' ? I do not myself think that there was any sitggestio falsi in the case. When the editors say ' what he thought he uttered with that easiness that...have scarce received from him a blot in his papers,' I conceive they were praising their author's inspiration. I cannot see in the words any suggestion,...

...be characteristic of genius. The publishers of the 1623 Folio said that Shakespeare wrote with such 'easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers'; and Milton was equally willing to concede that Shakespeare's ' easy numbers flow ... to the shame of...

...'To the great Varieh- of Readers', the editors praise the happy facility of their friend and fellow: 'His mind and hand went together, and what he thought,...have scarce received from him a blot in his papers.' They also claim that 'as where (before) you were abused with divers stolen and surreptitious copies,...

...the ignorant, proud of his paternity. Heminges and Condell inform Folio readers that what Shakespeare "thought, he uttered with that easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers" (Fi, Sig. A3V). In the Folio poem, however, Jonson reverses his position in the Discoveries, now portraying...

...recall the words of the editors of the first Folio in their address To the great Varicty of Readers: 'His mind and hand went together: and what he thought,...have scarce received from him a blot in his papers.' It is a pity that attention has concentrated on the last few words in that famous sentence, at the...

...was a most gentle exprcsser of it: his mind and hand went together; and what he thought, he utter'd hy But it is not our province, who only gather his works and give them you, to praise him. It is yours...

...of 1623, they included a prefatory address To the Great Variety of Readers' in which they said that 'His mind and hand went together, and what he thought...have scarce received from him a blot in his papers'. According to Jonson's Horatian poetics, this absence of 'blots' was a deficiency, not a strength. It...

...accounts, Shakespeare wrote with exceptional ease; Heminges and Condell testified that he composed 'with that easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers'.18 An exaggeration, perhaps - but would so fluent a writer, a 'natural' if ever there was one,...

...same man of whom Heminges and Condell would write, in their preface to the First Folio of 1623, that 'his mind and hand went together, and what he thought,...have scarce received from him a blot in his papers'? Likewise of whom Ben Jonson would note: 'I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour...

...Folio - that Mr Shakespeare's mind and hand went together, and what he thought he uttered with such easiness that 'we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers.' Pickleherring can confirm this. When my master's mind was white-hot it was a wonder that the page did...