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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. "
The Pursuit of Knowledge Under Difficulties: Illustrated by Anecdotes - Page 387
by George Lillie Craik - 1830 - 3 pages
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The Plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the Corrections and ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1809 - 394 pages
...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...
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The plays of William Shakspeare, with the corrections and illustr ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1809 - 390 pages
...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...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the ..., Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1813 - 564 pages
...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...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Volume 2

William Shakespeare - 1821 - 740 pages
...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...
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The pursuit of knowledge under difficulties [by G.L. Craik].

George Lillie Craik - 1830 - 464 pages
...writer. The truth may probably be best gathered from the words of his two friends, Herninge and Condel, who, in their address to the reader, prefixed to the...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...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 131

1871 - 608 pages
...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...
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The Gentleman's Magazine

1840 - 740 pages
...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...
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Bibliotheca Sacra and Theological Review, Volume 13

1856 - 924 pages
...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...
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The Works of William Shakspeare: The Text Formed from an Intirely ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1844 - 598 pages
...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,...
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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
...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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