...as he conceived them ; who, as he was a happy imitator of Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it. His mind and hand went together; and what he thought,...have scarce received from him a blot in his papers." That the friends, fellows, and editors of Shakspere were held to perform an acceptable service to the...

...Twysden, conceived them. Who, as he was a happy imitator of nature, was a most gentle expresser of it : his mind and hand went together ; and what he thought...have scarce received from him a blot in his papers." Here we have certainly, along with an emphatic and undiscriminating condemnation of all the preceding...

...first Folio did their best to encourage this absurdity by informing their readers that Shakspere's " mind and hand went together, and what he thought he...have scarce received from him a blot in his papers" — leading to the inference that their author was under a kind of afflatus or direct inspiration....

...conceived them ; who, as he was a happy imitator of Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it. Hit mind and hand went together ; and what he thought,...have scarce received from him a blot in his papers." That the editors of Shakspere were held to perform an acceptable service to the world by this publication,...

...further, they have resolved tu overlook their affirmation that they printed from manuscript : — " But in some cases, euch a* The Merchant of Venice, and The Midsummer-Night's Dream, the quarto and...

...their preface to the first edition of his works, that " his mind and hand went together ; and that what he thought, he uttered with that easiness, that...have scarce received from him a blot in his papers." And this brings before us a fact most important to his character. We know that so insensible was he...

...Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it. His mind and hand went together ; and what lie thought, lie That the editors of Shakspere were held to perform an acceptable service to the world by this publication,...

...would the rule of it had been so too." The players had said, in their preface to the first folio — "His mind and hand went together ; and what he thought...have scarce received from him a blot in his papers." Jonson, no doubt, alludes to this assertion. But we are not, therefore, to understand that Shakspere...

...'himself had any hand in such a revision. The editors of the Folio mention, as his ' characteristic, that ' we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers,' and ' Ben Jonson quotes the same from the mouth of his fellow-actors. It may be granted 'that genuine...

...he conceived them ; who, as he was a happy imitator of Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it : his mind and hand went together ; and what he thought,...have scarce received from him a blot in his papers." Doubtless it was natural, perhaps it was excusable, for the editors to speak in this manner ; nevertheless,...