 | Allardyce Nicoll - Drama - 2002 - 196 pages
...first printed in Discoveries (1640), to the players' boast that Shakespeare "never blotted out line": His wit was in his own power; would the rule of it...been so too. Many times he fell into those things could not escape laughter: as when he said in the person of Caesar, one speaking to him: "Caesar thou... | |
 | Stanley Wells - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 494 pages
...necessary he should be stopped.' The gist of Jonson's criticism is that Shakespeare lacked discipline: 'His wit was in his own power; would the rule of it had been so too.' Still, 'he redeemed his vices with his virtues. There was ever more in him to be praised than to be... | |
 | H. N. Gibson - Art - 2005 - 344 pages
...wherein he flow'd with that facility, that sometime it was necessary he should be stopp'd; Suffluminandus erat; as Augustus said of Haterius. His wit was in...been so too. Many times he fell into those things, could not escape laughter; as when he said in the person of Caesar, one speaking to him; Caesar thou... | |
 | Russell A. Fraser - 568 pages
...his spirit stalks the play, "mighty yet." Jonson, scoring off Shakespeare, complained that he often "fell into those things which could not escape laughter, as when he said in the person of Caesar, one speaking to him: 'Caesar, thou dost me wrong.' He replied: 'Caesar never did wrong but... | |
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Sufflaminandus erat,' as Augustus said of Haterius. His wit was in his own power ; would the rule of it had been so too ! Many times he fell into those things could not escape laughter, as when he said in the person of Caesar, one speaking to him, 
