 | William Shakespeare - 1878 - 750 pagina’s
...criticism. All this may be done, and perhaps done sometimes without impropriety. But I have always suspected that the reading is right, which requires many words to prove it wrong; and DR. JOHNSON'S FREFACB. . ciii the emendation wrong, that cannot without so much labor appear to bo... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1882 - 996 pagina’s
...criticism. All this may be done, and perhaps done sometimes without impropriety. But I have always suspected thp* cannot without so much labour appear to be right. The justness of a happy restoration strikes... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 360 pagina’s
...employed for a time in the interest of virtue. idler, No. 4. Emendations : I HAVE always suspected that the reading is right which requires many words...wrong, and the emendation wrong that cannot without so much labour appear to be right. The justness of a happy restoration strikes at once, and the moral... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1903 - 450 pagina’s
...criticism. All this may be done, and perhaps done sometimes without impropriety. But I have always suspected that the reading is right, which requires many words...wrong ; and the emendation wrong, that cannot without so much labour appear to be right. The justness of a happy restoration strikes at once, and the moral... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1903 - 434 pagina’s
...criticism. All this may be done, and perhaps done sometimes without impropriety. But I have always suspected that the reading is right, which requires many words...wrong ; and the emendation wrong, that cannot without so much labour appear to be right. The justness of a happy restoration strikes at once, and the moral... | |
 | Beverley Ellison Warner - 1906 - 328 pagina’s
...criticism. All this may be done, and perhaps done sometimes without impropriety. But I have always suspected that the reading is right, which requires many words...wrong; and the emendation wrong, that cannot without so much labour appear to be right. The justness of a happy restoration strikes at once, and the moral... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1908 - 254 pagina’s
...criticism. All this may be done, and perhaps done sometimes without impropriety. But I have always suspected that the reading is right, which requires many words...wrong ; and the emendation wrong, that cannot without so much labour appear to be right. The justness of a happy restoration strikes at once, and the moral... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1910 - 196 pagina’s
...disquisition ; and Johnson might have remembered and applied his own warning : ' I have always suspected that the reading is right, which requires many words...wrong ; and the emendation wrong, that cannot without so much labour appear to be right.' Johnson's treatment of his predecessors and rivals is uniformly... | |
 | Percy Hazen Houston - 1923 - 346 pagina’s
...this other excellent remark, confirming his attitude upon textual criticism: " I have always suspected that the reading is right, which requires many words...wrong; and the emendation wrong, that cannot without so much labour appear to be right." From this sound statement of his views he proceeds to apologize... | |
 | Annie S. McLenegan - 1924 - 688 pagina’s
...writing notes is not of difficult attainment. All this may be done---. But I have always suspected that the reading is right, which requires many words to prove it 7/rong; and the emendation wrong, that cannot without so much labour appear to be right. The justness... | |
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I have always suspected that the reading is right, which requires many words to prove it wrong ; and the emendation wrong, that cannot without so much labour appear to be right. 
