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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 out a thousand!" which they thought a malevolent speech. "
Timber: Or, Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter - Page 23
by Ben Jonson - 1892 - 166 pages
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Studies of Shakspere: Forming a Companion Volume to Every Edition of the Text

Charles Knight - 1849 - 574 pages
...passage : — " I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakspere, that in hie writing, whatsoever he penned, he never blotted out a line. My answer had been, Would he had blotted a thousand. Which they thought a malevolent speech. I had not told posterity...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1850 - 710 pages
...defects. 1 1 remember,' he says, ' the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakspeare, they their hooks ; and ranks their dispositions into several forms. And though li.nl blotted a thousand! which they thought a maleTolent speech. I had not told posterity this, but...
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The Life and Beauties of Shakespeare: Comprising Careful Selections from ...

William Shakespeare - 1851 - 408 pages
...sincere, kind-hearted, generous, and much slandered friend, Ben Jonson, who writes in his Discoveries, " I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honor to Shakspeare, that in writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. - My answer hath been,...
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The Life and Beauties of Shakespeare: Comprising Careful Selections from ...

William Shakespeare - 1853 - 420 pages
...his Discoveries, " I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honor to Shakspearc, that in writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, Wmild that he had blotted out a thousand! which they thought a malevolent speech. I had not told posterity...
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The Works of Shakespeare: The Text Regulated by the Recently Discovered ...

William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1853 - 1158 pages
...and printed with the date of 1641 : — "I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour line. My answer hath been, Would he had blctted a thousand ! which they thought a malevolent speech....
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The Works of Shakespeare: The Text Regulated by the Recently ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1853 - 442 pages
...and printed with the date of lti41 : — "I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out line. My answer hath been. Would he had blctted a, thousand ! whioh they thought a malevolent speech....
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The Lives of the Poets-laureate: With an Introductory Essay on the Title and ...

Wiltshire Stanton Austin, John Ralph - English poetry - 1853 - 448 pages
...Shakespeare he says : " I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare that in writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer had been, ' Would he had blotted a thousand!' which they thought a malevolent speech. I had not told...
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The dramatic works of William Shakspere, from the text of Johnson, Stevens ...

William Shakespeare - 1856 - 996 pages
...in his words : " I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakspeare, that in writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, Would he had a blutted a thousand ! which they thought a malevolent speech. I had not told posterity this, but for...
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The Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1857 - 666 pages
...Discoveries is too interesting to be omitted. " I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he...answer hath been, Would he had blotted a thousand 1 Which they thought a malevolent speech. I had not told posterity this, but for their ignorance, who...
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English and Scottish Sketches

Oliver Prescott Hiller - England - 1857 - 388 pages
...I remember." he says, " that the players have often mentioned it as an honor to Shakspeare, that in writing (whatsoever 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...
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