 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 492 pages
...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 lahour appear to be right. The justness of a happy restoration strikes at once, and the moral... | |
 | 1823 - 626 pages
...excellence. It is observed in a preface to Shakspeare, that " 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." Out notwithstanding these omimw indications,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 450 pages
...All this may be clone, and perhaps done sbmieiiiftes 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 - 1821 - 676 pages
...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 much labour appear to be right. The justness of a happy restoration strikes at once, and the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 526 pages
...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, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 484 pages
...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 - 1823 - 350 pages
...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 - 1825 - 476 pages
...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 - 1825 - 1010 pages
...criticism. All this may be done, and perhaps done sometimes without impropriety. Rut f have always suspected so much labour appear to be right. The justness of a happy restoration strikes at once, and the moral... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pages
...perhaps, done sometimes without impropriety. But I have always suspected that the reading is right, whidi 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. 
