 | William Shakespeare, Charles Hamilton, John Fletcher - Drama - 1994 - 302 pages
...to the printer without recopying them, wrote of the dramatist in their preface to The First Folio: "His mind and hand went together, and what he thought, he uttered with that easyness that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers."12 As you look at the original... | |
 | John Jones - Drama - 1999 - 310 pages
...recall the words of the editors of the first Folio in their address To the great Varicty of Readers: 'His mind and hand went together: and what he thought,...uttered with that easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers.' It is a pity that attention has concentrated on the last few words... | |
 | Leah Sinanoglou Marcus - Drama - 1996 - 284 pages
...writing out of nature rather than tin medieval fashion) out of a physical hook: Who. as he was a happie imitator of Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it. His mind and hand went together: And what he thouglu, he vnered with that easinesse, that wee haue scarse receiued from him a hlot in his papers.... | |
 | R. B. Parker, Sheldon P. Zitner - English drama - 1996 - 340 pages
...Steevens first suspected, possibly drafted in part by Jonson himself: Shakespeare, "as he was a happie imitator of Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it. His mind and hand went together. . . ."31 Thus launched into the critical vocabulary, the word "gentle" recurs repeatedly in later tributes... | |
 | George Eliot - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 576 pages
...indifferent. [1, 107-9] Shakspeare on the stage still in 1603 - acted a part in Ben Jonson's Sejanus [1, 104] 'Who, as he was a happy imitator of nature, was a most gentle expressor of it: his mind & hand went together; & what he thought he uttered with that easiness, that... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1996 - 1290 pages
...numbers as he conceived them; who, as be was a happy imitator of Nature, was a most gentle exprcsser elp time to furrow me with age, But stop no wrinkle in his pilg utter'd with that easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers. But it is not... | |
 | Jonathan Bate - Drama - 1998 - 420 pages
...of 1623, they included a prefatory address To the Great Variety of Readers' in which they said that 'His mind and hand went together, and what he thought...uttered with that easiness that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers'. According to Jonson's Horatian poetics, this absence of 'blots' was... | |
 | Elizabeth M. Knowles - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1999 - 1160 pages
...stationer says. First l-'olio Shakespeare 1 1 f>2 }) preface 8 Who, as he was ¡i happy imitator ol Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it. His mind...uttered with that easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot. First l-'olio Shakespeare ( 162 î) preface; cf. Jonson 421:2, Pope 1X6:18 Ernest... | |
 | Stephen Orgel, Sean Keilen - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 356 pages
...As is well known, Heminges and Condell in their Preface allege that Shakespeare: as he was a happie imitator of Nature, was a most gentle expresser of...mind and hand went together: and what he thought, he vttered with that easinesse, that wee haue scarse receiued from him a blot in his papers. Ben Jonson,... | |
 | Ian Wilson - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 564 pages
...same man of whom Heminges and Condell would write, in their preface to the First Folio of 1623, that 'his mind and hand went together, and what he thought,...uttered with that easiness that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers'? Likewise of whom Ben Jonson would note: 'I remember, the players have... | |
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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. 
