 | Edward Le Comte - 1991 - 168 pages
...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 had blotted a thousand!'" This is the slow writer envying the fast one. Milton, Jonson's heir as a classicist, also considered... | |
 | Richard F. Whalen - Drama - 1994 - 214 pages
...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 had blotted a thousand. Which they thought a malevolent speech. I had not told posterity this, but for their ignorance, who... | |
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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. 
