 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.  The Plays of Shakespeare with the Poems - Page 3by William Shakespeare - 1858Full view - About this book
 | Israel Gollancz, Walter Bagehot - English drama - 1901 - 242 pages
...about 1620 (cp. Ben Jonson's " Timber " in the " Temple Classies "; and Notes to " Julius Cazsar "). I remember the players have often mentioned it as...circumstance to commend their friend by wherein he most faulted ; and to justify mine own candour, for I loved the man, and do honour his memory on this side... | |
 | Literature - 1901 - 628 pages
...SHAKSPEARE NOSTRAT[I]. — I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honor to Shakspeare, that in his writing, whatsoever he penned, he never...circumstance to commend their friend by wherein he most faulted ; and to justify mine own candor, for I love the man, and do honor his memory on this side... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1901 - 320 pages
...blotted a thousand." An allusion to Ben Jonson's ' Discoveries,' section " De Shakespeare Nostrati " : "I remember the players have often mentioned it as...thousand," which they thought a malevolent speech." 153. 1. "Come, gentle Spring," &c. 'Spring,' 11. 1-4. 153. 12. "And see where surly Winter," &c. Id.,... | |
 | Thomas Ebenezer Webb - 1902 - 350 pages
...the vulgar. ' I remember,' he says, ' the Players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakspeare that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never...circumstance to commend their friend by wherein he most faulted, and to justify mine own candour; for I loved the man, and do honour his memory on this side... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1903 - 450 pages
...will venture to give it in his words. "honour to Shakespear, that in'"writing (whatsoever " he penn'd) he never blotted out a line. My answer " hath been,...circumstance " to commend their friend by, wherein he most faulted: " And to justifie mine own candor (for I lov'd the man, " and do honour his memory, on this... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1903 - 434 pages
...Players have often mention'd it as an " honour to Shakespear, that in writing (whatsoever " he penn'd) he never blotted out a line. My answer " hath been,...circumstance " to commend their friend by, wherein he most faulted : " And to Justine mine own candor (for I lov'd the man, " and do honour his memory, on this... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1904 - 304 pages
...that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers.' And Ben Jonson wrote in his ' Timber ': ' I remember the players have often mentioned it as...circumstance to commend their friend by wherein he most faulted.' Since then Jonson knew that Shakespeare wrote his plays with great readiness, he could not... | |
 | Barrett Wendell - English literature - 1904 - 386 pages
...dramas bewildering and his lyrics excellent. Here, for example, is his well-known comment on Shakspere : "I remember, the players have often mentioned it as...circumstance to commend their friend by, wherein he most faulted; . . . for I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1904 - 692 pages
...the critical and the moral judgment. Ben Jonson's words about Shakespeare may well be recalled here. 'I remember, the players have often mentioned it as...told posterity this, but for their ignorance, who choose that circumstance to commend their friend by, wherein he most faulted ; and to justify mine... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1904 - 710 pages
...the critical and the moral judgment. Ben Jonson's words about Shakespeare may well be recalled here. 'I remember, the players have often mentioned it as...told posterity this, but for their ignorance, who choose that circumstance to commend their friend by, wherein he most faulted ; and to justify mine... | |
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