 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 страници
...sometimes without impropriety. But I have always suspected that J the reading is right, whicTTrequires many words to prove it 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... | |
 | Edmund Henry Barker - 1829 - 798 страници
...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,... | |
 | Edmund Henry Barker - 1829 - 794 страници
...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 - 1832 - 364 страници
...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 labor appear to be right. The justness of a happy restoration strikes at once, and the moral... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1833 - 1140 страници
...without impropriety. But I have always suspected that the reading is right, which requires •i-ii. r her; Remove from her the means of all annoyance, And still keep eyes so much labour apytsx to be right. The justness of a happy restoration strikes at once, and the moral... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1838 - 1130 страници
...criticism. All this may be done, and perhaps done sometimes without impropriety. But I have always suspected the badge of all our tribe : You call me — misbeliever, cut-throat dog. And so much labour appear to be right. The justness of a happy restoration strikes at once, and the moral.... | |
 | James Stamford Caldwell - 1843 - 372 страници
...Correspondence). 3 Mrs. Greville of Sterne. 4 Life of Burney. 5 I bid. ci Life by Johnson. 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. 1 Seldom any splendid story is wholly true.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 348 страници
...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 labor appear to be right. The justness of a happy restoration strikes at once, and the moral... | |
 | John Selby Watson - 1861 - 500 страници
...restoration, Bentley's recal his saying about doubtful alterations, for we cannot help "suspecting that the reading is right which requires many words to prove it wrong, and that the emendation is wrong, which cannot without so much labour appear to be right." Thus in one... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 страници
...perhaps done sometimes without impropriety. But I have always suspected that the reading is rignt, which requires many words to prove it 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... | |
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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. 
