 | Samuel Schoenbaum - 1987 - 420 pàgines
...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...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... | |
 | Leonard R. N. Ashley - 1988 - 330 pàgines
...honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penn'd) he never blotted out line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand which they...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... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 pàgines
...essayist Shakespeare is the sexiest great writer in the language. AL Rowse (b. 1903) British academic For I loved the man and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. Ben Jonson (1573-1637) English dramatist, poet I am more easily bored with Shakespeare and have suffered... | |
 | James Shapiro - 1991 - 234 pàgines
...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...told posterity this, but for their ignorance, who choose that circumstance to commend their friends by, wherein he most faulted. And to justify my own... | |
 | Michael J. Sidnell - 1991 - 332 pàgines
...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 circumstance to commend their friend by wherein he most faulted, And to lustify my own... | |
 | Abraham Moses Klein - 1994 - 304 pàgines
...passage which Klein quotes is Timber, or Discoveries (c. 1630) by Ben Jonson (1572-1637): 'for I loVd the man and do honour his memory (on this side idolatry) as much as any.' regisseur: (Fr.) 'theatre manager' Eyes ... not: 'Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding;... | |
 | R. B. Parker, Sheldon P. Zitner - 1996 - 340 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pàgines
...Matter, "De Shakespeare Nostrali," (1641), ed. Felix E. Schelling (1892). Nonetheless, )onson wrote, "I loved the man and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any." Shame A blot in thy scutcheon to all futurity. MIGUEL DE CERVANTES, (1547-1616) Spanish author. Merlin's... | |
 | James Ogden, Arthur Hawley Scouten - 1997 - 316 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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...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... | |
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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! 
