 | John Genest - Theater - 1832 - 716 pages
...obliged to him. Vol. 9. Underwoods, Translations, &c. Discoveries — Jonson says of Sbakspeare, " I " remember, the players have often mentioned it as " an honour to Shakspeare, that in his writing he " never blotted out a line — my answer bath beeo, " would he had blotted a thousand — which... | |
 | English literature - 1871 - 608 pages
...not been actors accustomed to such phraseology. J It is to this expression that Ben Jonson refers : ' I remember the players have often mentioned it as...his writing, whatsoever he penned, he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been,' &c. From the censure conveyed in Jonson's remark, it is obvious that... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1838 - 1130 pages
...sincere, kind-hearted, generous, and much slandered friend, Ben Jonson, who writes in his Discoveries, ' ts more woeful pageants than the scene Wherein we play in. Jag. All the world's a writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, Would he had blotted... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1839 - 550 pages
...Ben Jonson has made a sort of an essay towards it in his Discoveries, I will give it in his words : " I remember the players have often mentioned it as\ " an honour to Shakespeare, that in writing (whatsoever he " penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath "... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 354 pages
...expressions occur, may be pertinently repeated in this place. — " I remember," says Ben Jonson, " the players have often mentioned it as an honour to...his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, " Would that he had blotted a thousand," which they thought a malevolent... | |
 | David Lester Richardson - 1840 - 714 pages
...expressions occur, may be pertinently repeated in this place. — " I remember," says Ben Jonson, " the players have often mentioned it as an honour to...his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, " Would that he had blotted a thousand," which they thought a malevolent... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 598 pages
...old *%i>, when, as he tells us, his memory began to fail, and printed with the date of 1641 : — " 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,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 532 pages
..."Discoveries," written in old age, when as he tells us, his memory began to fail , and printed in 1641 : — "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... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1844 - 600 pages
...in old ago, when, as he tells us, his memory began to fail, and printed with the date of 1641:— " 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. 
