 | 1909 - 498 sidor
.... 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... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 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 Crystal, Hilary Crystal - 2000 - 604 sidor
...Correspondents', in The Faber Book of Useful Verse (1981), p. 157 [cf. 49:58] 48:28 I have always suspected that the reading is right which requires many words to prove it wrong, and the emendation wrong which cannot without so much labour appear to be right. Samuel Johnson, 1765, Preface to Shakespeare... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1854 - 576 sidor
...have taken to prove that it was absurd and valueless. Dr. Johnson tells us, that he " always suspected that the reading is right, which requires many words to prove it wrong." If this principle be a sound one, the correctness of the emendations which Mr. Collier has recently... | |
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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. 
