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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. "
The Quarterly Review - Page 26
1871
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The Works of William Shakspeare: The Text Formed from an Intirely ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1844 - 598 pages
...old *%i>, when, as he tells us, his memory began to fail, and printed with the date of 1641 : — " 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,...
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The Works of William Shakespeare: The Text Formed from an Entirely ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1844 - 600 pages
...in old ago, when, as he tells us, his memory began to fail, and printed with the date of 1641:— " 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,...
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Cyclopędia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...Jonson has touched freely, hut with manliness and fairness, on these defects. ' I remember,' he save, ' hout all cloud, did to my thinking s ont a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand! which they thought a malevolent speech....
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: First period, from the earliest times to 1400

Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...I remember,' he says, ' the players hare often mentioned it as an honour to Shakspeare, that in bis their wanton part ; To make would he had blotted a thousand! which they thought a malevolent speech. I had not told posterity this,...
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Shakespeare's Plays: With His Life, Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1847 - 736 pages
...words : — " I remember the players have often mentioned it a» an honour to Shakespeare, that in to Would ho had blotted a thousand! which they thought a malevolent speech. I had not told posterity this,...
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The Life of William Shakespeare: Including Many Particulars Respecting the ...

James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - Dramatists, English - 1848 - 368 pages
...to be drawn from it will not eoineide with Rowe's. De Shakespeare nostrat. — Augustus in Hat.'— I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penn'd) hee never blotted ont line. My answer hath...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...freely, but with manliness and fairness, on these defect«. ' I remember,' he says, ' the players hare itious and mercenary, or ignorantly zealous divinity ; some allured to the trade of law, grounding would he had blotted a thousand! which they thought a malevolent speech. I had not told posterity this,...
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The Christian Observatory, Volume 3

Christianity - 1849 - 606 pages
...pages of the bard of Avon. " I remember," he says, "the players have often mentioned it as an honor to Shakspeare, that in his writing, whatsoever he...he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, Would that he had blotted out a thousand ! Which they thought a malevolent speech. I had not told posterity...
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Studies of Shakspere: Forming a Companion Volume to Every Edition of the Text

Charles Knight - 1849 - 582 pages
...the two men. In his ' Discoveries,' written in his last years, there is the following passage : — " I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakspere, that in his writing, whatsoever be penned, he never blotted out a line. My answer had been,...
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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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