 | William Shakespeare - 1800 - 330 sidor
...criticifm. All this may be done, and perhaps done fometimes without impropriety. But I have always fufpecied that the reading is right, which requires many words to prove it wrong; and the emend.iton wrong, tlrtt caivnot without io much labour appear to be right. The juftnefs of a happy... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 454 sidor
...may be done, and perhaps done fometimes Without impropriety. But 1 have always fuipected •^ that that the reading is right, which requires many words...labour appear to be right. The juftnefs of a happy rcftoration ftrikes at once, and the moral precept may be well applied to criticifm, quod dubitas nefeceris,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1803 - 494 sidor
...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1802 - 412 sidor
...All this may be done, and perhaps done fometimes •without impropriety. But I have always fufpefted that the reading is right, which requires many Words...cannot without fo much labour appear to be right. The juft-. nefs of a happy reftoration ftrifces at once, and the moral: precept may be well applied to... | |
 | Gilbert Wakefield - 1804 - 572 sidor
...principles in forming or illustrating them more exact. " I have always suspected," says Johnson, " 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." Ruhnken,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 sidor
...implies excellence out of the reach of rules. Ibid. p. 1JO. That reading may generally be suspected to be right, which requires many words to prove it wrong; and the emendation wrong, which cannot without so much labour appear to be right. Preface to Shakspeare, vol. i, p. (56, Every... | |
 | David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1805 - 696 sidor
...principles in forming or illustrating them more exact. " I have always suspected," says Johnson, " 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." Ruhnken,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1806 - 394 sidor
...All this may be done, and perhaps done sometime!) 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 - 1806 - 376 sidor
...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 Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1807 - 786 sidor
...authorities without number to justify themselves to the criticks. ' I have always suspected,' says Johnson, ' that the reading is right, which requires many words to prove it wrong ; and the emendation wrong, which requires many words to prove it right.' He indeed deserves praise, who, by the introduction of... | |
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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. 
