 | Park Honan - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 522 pages
...art', he told William Drummond in 1619, and in retrospect he tried to sum up his friend's chief defect. 'I remember, the Players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare', noted Jonson, 'that in his writing, (whatsoever he penn'd), hee never blotted out line.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 500 pages
...his Discoveries first printed in the Folio of 1641: 'De Shakspeare nostrat. — Augustus in Hat. — 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Great Britain - 2001 - 272 pages
...temper their praise in his memoir, Timber: or Discoveries, which was posthumously published in 1640: I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out line. My answer hath been,... | |
 | Quotations - 2001 - 838 pages
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 | Stanley Wells - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 494 pages
...scarce received from him a blot in his papers.' Perhaps they had said the same to Ben jonson who wrote 'I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare that in his writing, whatsoever he penned, he never blotted out line. My answer hath been... | |
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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. 
