 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 394 էջ
...he never blotted out a line."] This is not true. They only say in their preface to his plays, that " his mind and hand went together, and what he thought,...have scarce received from him a blot in his papers." On this Mr. Pope observes, that " there never was a more groundless report, or to the contrarv of which... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 390 էջ
...he never blotted out a line.] This is not true. They only say in their preface to his plays, that " his mind and hand went together, and what he thought,...have scarce received from him a blot in his papers." On this Mr. Pope observes, that "there never was a more groundless report, or to the contrary of which... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1813 - 564 էջ
...readiness of his wit. " As he was a happy imitator of nature, (say his fellow comedians,) so was he a most gentle expresser of it. His mind and hand went...have scarce received from him a blot in his papers." " My gentle Shakspeare," is the compellation used. to him by Ben Jonson. " He was indeed (says his... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 740 էջ
...Latinisms, in this single passage, which I have no doubt was their own composition, they say — " and what he thought he uttered with that easiness,...have scarce received from him a blot in his papers," using the familiar English word (easiness) which would naturally occur to those unacquainted with Latin... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1830 - 464 էջ
...from the words of his two friends, Herninge and Condel, who, in their address to the reader, prefixed to the first folio edition of the plays, speaking...from him a blot in his papers." It is a common but very ill-founded prejudice, to imagine that any thing like regularity or diligence is either impracticable... | |
 | 1871 - 608 էջ
...nature, was a most gentle cxpresser of it. His mind and hand went together; and what he thought ho uttered with that easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers.' { Now these expressions certainly imply that Shakspeare had the right, common with others, of being... | |
 | 1840 - 740 էջ
...vindication of whose integrity we have those prior editions, besides their own express declaration " that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers ; " for the veracity of which declaration we have the remarkable words of Jonson, that " he wished... | |
 | 1856 - 924 էջ
...author, applies to the early English writers generally : " As he was a happy imitator of nature, so he was a most gentle expresser of it. His mind and hand...have scarce received from him a blot in his papers." These characteristics in the mode of thought and expression, arose from the singular sincerity and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 598 էջ
...solemnization of matrimony between William Shakespeare of 1623 : — " His mind and hand went togcther, and what he thought he uttered with that easiness,...have scarce received from him a blot in his papers." • The instrument, divested of useless formal contractions, runs thus : " Noverint universi per presentes,... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1844 - 600 էջ
...William Shakespeare of 1623: — "His mind and hand went together, and what he thought he uttered witli that easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers." 6 The instrument, divested of useless formal contractions, runs thus : " Noverint univorsi per presentes,... | |
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Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it : his mind and hand went together ; and what he thought, he uttered with that easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers. 
