 | George Eliot - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 576 pages
...the country.' [1, 74] Venus & Adonis 1 593. Lucrece 1 594 [I, 76-7] Ben Jonson in his Discoveries: 'I remember the players have often mentioned it as...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 - Quotations - 1997 - 666 pages
...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." BEN JONSON, (c. 1572-1637) British dramatist, poet. Timber, or Discoveries Made upon Men and Matter, "De... | |
 | Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare that in his writing, whatsoever he penned, he never blotted out ng and the white sail's shaking, And a grey mist on the sea's 5261 limber, or Discoveries made upon Men and Matter The fear of every man that heard him was, lest... | |
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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. 
