...idolatry, as much as any. He was, indeed, honest and of an open and free nature ; had an excellent fantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions, wherein he flowed with that facility that sometimes it was necessary he should be stopped ;" and Chettle, in his apology for having published...

...idolatry) as much as any. He was indeed honest, and of an open and free nature; had an excellent fantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions, wherein he...that sometime it was necessary he should be stopped . . .' There is also a certain amount of negative evidence: unlike most of his contemporary writers,...

...idolatry, as much asany. He was (indeed) honest, and of an open and free nature; had an excellent phantsie, brave notions and gentle expressions; wherein he flowed with that facility, that sometimes it was necessary he should be stopped : Sufflaminandus erat, as Augustus said of Haterius....

...volubility: this playwright "needed the brake," but had ... brave notions and gentle expressions; wherein hee flowed with that facility, that sometime it was necessary he should be stop'd. ... His wit was in his owne power; would that the rule of it had beene so too. Many times he...

...that it was horror'. The same thought lies behind Jonson's note in his Discoveries, that Shakespeare 'flowed with that facility, that sometime it was necessary he should be stopped. . .Many times he fell into those things, could not escape laughter.' And it is also present, I think,...

...Idolatry, as much as any. He was indeed, honest, and of an open and free nature, had an excellent fantasy, brave notions and gentle expressions, wherein he flowed...facility, that sometime it was necessary he should be stopp'd: Sufflaminandus erat ["he was to be checked"], as Augustus said of Haterius. His wit was in...

...memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was (indeed) honest, and of open and full nature; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle...expressions; wherein he flowed with that facility, that sometimes it was necessary he should be stopped: . . ." (quoted in Brandes, p. 20). 9.47 (185:12-13)....

...vol, vin, as any, He was, indeed, honest and of an open and free nature, had an excellent fantasy, brave notions and gentle expressions, wherein he flowed...that sometime it was necessary he should be stopped, . . . Many times he fell into those things could not scape laughter, as when he said, in the person...

...thought a malevolent speech. . . . [He] had an excellent fantasy, brave notions, and gentle expression; wherein he flowed with that facility that sometime it was necessary he should be stopped. His wit was in his own power; would the rule of it had been so too."42 What grates with Jonson is the...

...writings, Timber, or Discoveries, Jonson lamented Shakespeare as a writer who 'never blotted out line' and 'flowed with that facility, that sometime it was necessary he should be stopped.' The record of Jonson's conversations with William Drummond includes the abrupt view that 'Shakespeare...