...1. 279. And fluent Shakspeare scarce effac'daline. Ben Jonson, Discoveries (ed. Gifford, 9. 175) : ' I remember the players have often mentioned it as...his writing, whatsoever he penned, he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, " Would he had blotted a thousand I" ' 1. 287. Congreve — Farquhar...

...1. 279. And fluent Sbahpeare scarce ejfac'da line. Ben Jonson, Discoveries (ed. Gifford, 9. 175) : ' I remember the players have often mentioned it as...his writing, whatsoever he penned, he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, " Would he had blotted a thousand I" ' 1.287. Congreve — Farqubar...

...Shakspeare is well known, but it is the reverse of unfavourable. Its value may excuse its length: — " I remember the players have often mentioned it as...writing — whatsoever he penned — he never blotted oat a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted out a thousand 1 which they thought a malevolent...

...artistic conscience, about Shakespeare's fluency. These after all pertain to the craft, not the craftsman. 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,...

...Jonson in his Discoveries remembered the Warwickshire man but was not afraid to be frank about him. I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penn'd) he never blotted out line. My answer hath been,...

...allusion is to what Brandes called the "noble eulogy prefixed to the First Folio" of Shakespeare's plays: "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...

...opened the gates and made the way, that went before us: but as guides, not commanders . . . .4 647 I remember the 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...

...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...

...the country.' [1, 74] Venus & Adonis 1 593. Lucrece 1 594 [I, 76-7] Ben Jonson in his Discoveries: 'I remember the players have often mentioned it as...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,...

...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, "De...