 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1853 - 714 pages
...Jonson bas touched freely, but with manliness and fairness, on these defects. ' I remember,' he says, ' the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakspeare, that in hi« writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a Une. My answer hath been, would he had blotted... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1853 - 440 pages
...in old age, when, as he tells us, his memory began to fail, and printed with the date of lti41 : — "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 - 1856 - 1000 pages
...Ben Jonson has made a sort of an essay towards it in his Dixcareries, I will give it in his words : " writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, Would he had a blutted... | |
 | David Masson - English literature - 1856 - 528 pages
...thousand.' " — Written about 1670, by Aubrey, lorn 1625. Ben Jonson's own Sketch of Shakespeare. — " I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatso ever he penned), he never blotted out a line. My answer hath... | |
 | David Masson - English literature - 1856 - 494 pages
...thousand.' " — Written about 1670, by Aubrey, born 1625. Ben Jonson's own Sketch of Shakespeare.- — " I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatso ever he penned), he never blotted out a line. My answer hath... | |
 | George Henry Townsend - 1857 - 140 pages
...Discoveries," collected at a late period in Ben Jonson's life. It is introduced after the following : — " 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... | |
 | William Henry Smith - Catholics - 1857 - 188 pages
...it, we do not esteem it necessary to grapple with the others. In his Discoveries Jonson writes : — "I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writings (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath... | |
 | George Henry Townsend - 1857 - 136 pages
...Discoveries," collected at a late period in Ben Jonson's life. It is introduced after the following :— " 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... | |
 | William Henry Smith - Catholics - 1857 - 190 pages
...mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writings (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... | |
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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. 
