 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...Jonson has touched freely, hut with manliness and fairness, on these defects. ' I remember,' he save, ' hout all cloud, did to my thinking s ont a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand! which they thought a malevolent speech.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...mentioned it as an honour to Shakspeare, that in bis 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... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - Dramatists, English - 1848 - 368 pages
...to be drawn from it will not eoineide with Rowe's. De Shakespeare nostrat. — Augustus in Hat.'— I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penn'd) hee never blotted ont line. My answer hath... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...freely, but with manliness and fairness, on these defect«. ' I remember,' he says, ' the players hare itious and mercenary, or ignorantly zealous divinity ; some allured to the trade of law, grounding out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand! which they thought a malevolent speech.... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1849 - 582 pages
...the two men. In his ' Discoveries,' written in his last years, there is the following passage : — " I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakspere, that in his writing, whatsoever be penned, he never blotted out a line. My answer had been,... | |
 | Christianity - 1849 - 606 pages
...pages of the bard of Avon. " I remember," he says, "the players have often mentioned it as an honor to Shakspeare, that in his writing, whatsoever he penned, he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, Would that he had blotted out a thousand ! Which they thought a malevolent... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1850 - 710 pages
...Jonson has touched freely, but with manliness and fairness, on these defects. 1 1 remember,' he says, ' 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 he li.nl blotted a thousand! which they thought a maleTolent... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - Chartism - 1850 - 492 pages
...defiled. These fencers in religion I like not. — Ben Jonson. BKN Joxsox's OPINION OF SIIAKSPKKE. — I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakspere, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been,... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - 1850 - 504 pages
...defiled. These fencers in religion I like not. — Ben Jonson. BEN JONSOS'S OPINION OF SHAKSPERE. — I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakspere, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a 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. 
