...Heminge and Condel say, or are made to say, of him : — " Who, as he was a happy imitator of nature, was a most gentle expresser of it. His mind and hand...easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers." Abundant examples confute the common imagination that anything like regularity or diligence...

...have been written by Jonson, — and records that Shakspere, " as he was a happy imitator of Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it. His mind and hand...easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers." The fact is no doubt truly stated ; but it is probable that those "papers" were fair...

...rest, absolute in their numbers, as he conceived them. Who, as he was a happie imitator of nature, was a most gentle expresser of it. His mind and hand...thought he uttered with that easiness, that we have scarse received from him a blot in his papers. But it is not our province, who onelie gather his works...

...rest, absolute in their numbers, as he conceived them ; who, as he was a happy imitator of Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it. His mind and hand...easiness that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers." That the friends, fellows, and editors of Shakspere were held to perform an acceptable...

...or in all respects. So Sir Roger Twysden, conceived them. Who, as he was a happy imitator of nature, was a most gentle expresser of it : his mind and hand...easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers." Here we have certainly, along with an emphatic and undiscriminating condemnation of...

...the theatre, Heminges and Condell, who may be presumed to have known his working habits — said that 'His mind and hand went together: And what he thought, he uttered with that easinesse, that wee have scarce received from him a blot in his papers'. On the other hand, there is...

...'To the great Varieh- of Readers', the editors praise the happy facility of their friend and fellow: 'His mind and hand went together, and what he thought,...easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers.' They also claim that 'as where (before) you were abused with divers stolen and surreptitious...

...the ignorant, proud of his paternity. Heminges and Condell inform Folio readers that what Shakespeare "thought, he uttered with that easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers" (Fi, Sig. A3V). In the Folio poem, however, Jonson reverses his position in the Discoveries,...

...to the printer without recopying them, wrote of the dramatist in their preface to The First Folio: "His mind and hand went together, and what he thought, he uttered with that easyness that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers."12 As you look at the original...

...recall the words of the editors of the first Folio in their address To the great Varicty of Readers: 'His mind and hand went together: and what he thought,...easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers.' It is a pity that attention has concentrated on the last few words in that famous sentence,...