...OR DISCOVERIES. Cunningham's Edition, gth vol., p. 155. De Shakspeare nostrat. — Augustus in Hat. I remember, the players have often mentioned it as...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,...

...will deliver it to them that should have it in the city of Argos." Iphigenia among the Taurians. 18. "I remember the players have often mentioned it as...answer hath been, Would he had blotted a thousand." BEN JONSON, Timber, or Discoveries. 19. "There was a curious drawl in the voice that made Mowgli turn...

...poet for the particular in which lie was most at fault. When the players mentioned it to the honor of Shakespeare that in his writing, whatsoever he penned...never blotted out a line, " my answer hath been," said he, " Would he had blotted out a thousand ! " Whatever we may think of the abstract justice of...

...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 —...

...papers.1 But it is not our province . . . to praise him . . . 1 Jonson sagt in den „Discoveries" : I remember, the players have often mentioned it as...(whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. Vielleicht stützt sich die Bemerkung nur auf diese Stelle in der Foliodedikation. Man kann aber freilich...

...Shakespeare. He remarks, in his posthumously published Discoveries (notes, memories, brief essays), " I remember the players have often mentioned it as...(whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line." And Ben gives, we shall later see, his habitual reply to this habitual boast. As to the sources of...

...in his Words. " I remember the Players have often mentioned it as an Honour to Shakespear, that in Writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out...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...

...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 a thousand.' " Even in his best work Shakespeare has more faults than any other poet of England. He is in turn careless,...

...nostrat.'). ' I remember,' he says, ' the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakspeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never...Would he had blotted a thousand, which they thought a malebut are pointed and smoothed even as they are taken out of the Earth, so nature itself was all...

...a blot in his papers." This testimony is clinched by Ben Jonson, who says in his "Timber," LXIV. : "I remember the players have often mentioned it as...line. My answer hath been, ' Would he ^had blotted out a thousand,' which they thought was a malevolent speech. I had not told posterity this but for...