 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 out a thousand!  Poetaster - Página 207por Ben Jonson - 1913 - 456 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1886 - 230 páginas
...his subsequent reference to the man who, so far as opinion in our own day goes, could do no wrong : " I remember the players have often mentioned it as...a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted out a thousand ! which they thought a malevolent speech. I had not told posterity this but for their... | |
 | Victor Hugo - 1886 - 472 páginas
...relates (ix. 175, Gifford's edition) : " I recollect that the players often mentioned it as an honor to Shakespeare that, in his writing, whatsoever he penned, he never blotted out a line ; I answered, ' Would to God he had blotted out a thousand ! ' " This wish, moreover, was granted by... | |
 | Charlotte Endymion Porter - 1887 - 630 páginas
...remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shak"speare, that in writing (whatsoever be penned) he never blotted out a "line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a <Aoutand/which "they thought a malevolent speech. I had not told posterity this, but "for their ignorance,... | |
 | Appleton Morgan, Charlotte Endymion Porter - 1887 - 698 páginas
...in his words : "I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shak"speare, that in writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a "line. My answer hath been, would tie had blotted a thousand /which "they thought a malevolent speech. I had not told posterity this,... | |
 | Horace - 1888 - 476 páginas
...on Shakspere : "I remember the players often mentioned it as an honour to S. that in his writings, whatsoever he penned, he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, ' Would he had blotted out a thousand'." 168. ex medio 'from daily life'. arcesEit : some of the best MSS. here have accersit.... | |
 | James Appleton Morgan - 1888 - 360 páginas
...remember the players have often mentioned it as an honor to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, " would he had blotted out a thousand ! " which they thought a malevolent speech. I had not told posterity this but for their... | |
 | Donald Grant Mitchell - 1910 - 350 páginas
...severer art;1 he would — very likely — have 1 In his Discoveries (De Shakespeare) Jonson says, "The players have often mentioned it as an honour...penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath 299 lashed him, if he had been under him at school, for his irregularities of form and of speech —... | |
 | 1889 - 1068 páginas
...Jonson's was sane and worthy : " I remember," he says, " the players have often mentioned it as an honor to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he...line. My answer hath been, ' Would he had blotted out a thousand." " Shakespeare's reply might be in Pope's language that he For gain, not glory, wing'd... | |
 | 1889 - 836 páginas
...praised than pardoned." Again he relates : " The players have often mentioned it as an honor to Shakspere that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never...a line. My answer hath been : Would he had blotted out a thousand ! " Thus Ben Jonson. The thousand lines he referred to, have been blotted out, and more.... | |
 | Alfred Waites - 1890 - 32 páginas
...says (Disc. De Shakspeare nostrat), "the players have often mentioned it as an honor to Shakspeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never...a line. My answer hath been, Would he had blotted out a thousand. Which they thought a malevolent speech. I had not told posterity this, but for their... | |
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