 | 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...never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, " Would that he had blotted a thousand," which they thought a malevolent speech. I had not told posterity this,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...ruMitioned it as an honour to Shakspcare, that in liis writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted 3ut which they thought a malerolent speech. I had not told posterity this, but Гиг their ignorance who... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | 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
...I remember,' he says, ' the players hare often mentioned it as an honour to Shakspeare, that in bis their wanton part ; To make which they thought a malevolent speech. I had not told posterity this, but for their ignorance who... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1847 - 736 pages
...words : — " I remember the players have often mentioned it a» an honour to Shakespeare, that in to ho had blotted a thousand! which they thought a malevolent speech. I had not told posterity this, but... | |
 | 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 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. 
