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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. "
Shakespeare and His Birthplace: Containing a Biography of the Poet, and a ... - Page 51
by Thomas Nelson Publishers - 1859 - 128 pages
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The Plays of Shakespeare with the Poems, Volume 1

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,...everywhere. The manner how this action hath been home, I had not told posterity this, but for their ignorance, who chose that circumstance to commend their...
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The Plays of Shakespeare, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - Registers of births, etc - 1858 - 836 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...thousand ! Which they thought a malevolent speech. I had not told posterity this, but for their ignorance, who chose that circumstance to commend their...
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The National Review, Volume 6

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...thousand ! Which they thought a malevolent speech. I had not told posterity this but for their ignorance, who chose to justify that circumstance to commend...
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National Review, Volume 6

Great Britain - 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...thousand ! Which they thought a malevolent speech. I had not told posterity this but for their ignorance, who chose to justify that circumstance to commend...
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Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems, Volume 1

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...writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out line. My answer hath been, Would be bad blotted a thousand I which they thought a malevolent speech....
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Sidney Smith. Samuel Rogers. James Smith. George Selwyn. Lord Chesterfield ...

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...
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Biographical and Critical Essays: Reprinted from Reviews, with Additions and ...

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...
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The Pictorial Edition of the Works of Shakspere, Volume 7

William Shakespeare - 1860 - 586 pages
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The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 31; Volume 104

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 been, " Would he had blotted a thousand!...
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Rival Playwrights: Marlowe, Jonson, Shakespeare

James Shapiro - English drama - 1991 - 234 pages
...frustrated remarks in his Discoveries: I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honor to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he...blotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he have blotted a thousand. Which they thought a malevolent speech. I had not told posterity this, but...
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