 | Jonathan Bate - Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) - 1998 - 420 pages
...from Heminges and Condell's praise in a passage 'conceming our Shakespeare' in his literar/ 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. My answer hath... | |
 | Connie Robertson - English wit and humor - 1998 - 404 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'. 2195 Volpone Our drink shall be prepared gold and amber; Which we will take, until my roof whirl around... | |
 | Laurie Rozakis - Fiction - 1999 - 406 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." — Ben Jonson, Timber; or Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter (1640) You just can't please some people, and... | |
 | Ian Wilson - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 564 pages
...that we 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 to (bl [d] W in Fio AIT 13 six turviving Shakespeare signatures: [a] from the Belott-Mountjoie deposition,... | |
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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. 
