 | Don Gifford, Robert J. Seidman - 1988 - 704 pages
...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 hath blotted a thousand. Which they thought a malevolent speech. I had not told posterity this but... | |
 | Michael J. Sidnell - 1991 - 332 pages
...players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare that in his writing fwhatsoever he pennedl he never blotted out a line, My answer hath been, 'Would he had blotted a thousand', which they took for a malevolent speech. I had not told posterity this but for their ignorance, who choose that... | |
 | Edward Le Comte - 1991 - 168 pages
...remember the players have often mentioned it as an honor 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!'" This is the slow writer envying the fast one. Milton, Jonson's heir as a classicist, also considered... | |
 | James Shapiro - 1991 - 234 pages
...remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honor to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never 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... | |
 | R. B. Parker, Sheldon P. Zitner - 1996 - 340 pages
...mentioned as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing, whatsoever he penned, he never blotted out line. My answer hath been, 'Would he had blotted a...thousand'; which they thought a malevolent speech. . . . [He] had an excellent fantasy, brave notions, and gentle expression; wherein he flowed with that... | |
 | George Eliot - 1996 - 576 pages
...mentioned it as an honour to Shakspeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted a line. My answer hath been, 'Would he had blotted a thousand!' ... I loved the man & do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was indeed honest,... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pages
...4 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." BEN JONSON, (c. 1572-1637) British dramatist, poet. Timber, or Discoveries Made upon Men and Matter,... | |
 | James Ogden, Arthur Hawley Scouten - 1997 - 316 pages
...mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare that in his writing (whatsoever he penn'd) hee never blotted out line. My answer hath been would he had blotted a thousand. Which they thought a malevolent speech." 10 Discussions of revision have sometimes been greeted with malevolence, and nowhere has this been... | |
 | Jonathan Bate - 1998 - 420 pages
...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...told posterity this, but for their ignorance, who choose that circumstance to commend their friend by, wherein he most faulted. And to justify mine own... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...Matter The players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare that in his writing, whatsoever e wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking, And a grey mist on the sea's 5261 limber, or Discoveries made upon Men and Matter The fear of every man that heard him was, lest... | |
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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. 
