 | Abraham Hayward - Great Britain - 1858 - 470 pages
...admiration for the greatest of poets : and he frequently read aloud from Ben Jonson's "Discoveries:" — "I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakspeare, that in his writings, whatsoever he penned, he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, ' Would he had blotted... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - Great Britain - 1859 - 476 pages
...admiration for the greatest of poets : and he frequently read aloud from Ben Jonson's "Discoveries:" — "I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakspeare, that in his writings, whatsoever he penned, he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, ' Would he had blotted... | |
 | 1858 - 516 pages
...than his verses, shows clearly that at least he was not disposed wilfully to underrate his friend : " 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 - 1858 - 762 pages
...tells us, his memory began to fail, and printed with the date of 1641 : sec p. 07 in that folio :— " 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,... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1858 - 512 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 ! Which they thought a malevolent speech. I hud not told posterity this but for their ignorance, who... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1858 - 830 pages
...1673. Sr John Bernard, Knight my noble and ever honoured Patron, was buned 5th of March 1673." 1 " iss your grace's hand: Mowbray, the bishop Scroop, Hastings, an Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned), he never blotted out a line. My answer hath... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Registers of births, etc - 1858 - 838 pages
...Bernard, Knight my noble and ever honoured Patron, was buned 5th of March 1673." 10* See page xxix. 108 " 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... | |
 | Great Britain - 1858 - 528 pages
...than his verses, shows clearly that at least he was not disposed wilfully to underrate his friend : " 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... | |
 | Thomas Nelson Publishers - Stratford-upon-Avon (England) - 1859 - 128 pages
...Shakespeare with a freedom which brought on him the charge of envy, although without just cause. He says, "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 Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1911 - 890 pages
...posterity,' after 1626, and published in ' Timber, or Discoveries,' after his death. Here Ben remarks : ' I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that, in his writing, whatever he penned, he never blotted out a line. My answer hath... | |
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