 | Samuel Johnson - 1765 - 80 pages
...All this may- be done, and perhaps done fometimes without impropriety. But I have always fufpected that the reading is right, which requires many words...wrong ; and the emendation wrong, that cannot without fo much labour appear to be right. The juftnefs of a happy reftoration ftrikes at once, and the moral... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson - English drama - 1765 - 678 pages
...fometitnes without impropriety. But I have always fufpe&ed that the reading is right, which requires mar.y words to prove it wrong; and the emendation wrong, that cannot without fo much labour appear to :.e right. The juftnefc of a happy refloration itrikes [E 2] at at once, and... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1768 - 676 pages
...criticifm. All this may be done, and perhaps done fometimes without impropriety. But I have always fufpeded that the reading is right, which requires many words...wrong; and the emendation wrong, .that cannot without fp much labour appear to be right. The juftnefs of a happy reftoration ftrikes at once, and the moral... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1771 - 490 pages
...All this may be done, and perhaps done fometimes without impropriety. But I have always fufpeccted that the reading is right, which requires many words...wrong ; and the emendation wrong, that cannot without fo much labour appear to be right. The juftnefs of a happy reftoration ftrikes at once, and the moral... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1773 - 554 pages
...criticiim. All this may be done, and perhaps done fometimes without impropriety. But I have always fufpected that the reading is right, which requires many words...wrong ; and the emendation wrong, that cannot without fo much labour appear to be right. The juftnefs of a happy reftoration ftrikes at and the moral precept... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1774 - 392 pages
...Criticifm. All this may be done, and perhaps done fometimes without Impropriety. But I have always fufpected that the Reading is right, which requires many Words...wrong ; and the Emendation wrong, that cannot, without fo much Labour, appear to be right. The Juftnefs of a happy Reftoration ftrikes at once, and the moral... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1774 - 412 pages
...thofe All this may be done, and perhaps done fometimes without Impropriety. But 1 have always fufpe&ed that the Reading is right, which requires many Words...wrong ; and the Emendation wrong, that cannot, without fo much Labour, appear to be right. The Juftnefs of a happy Re- . Iteration ftrikes at Once, and the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1774 - 374 pages
...Criticifm. All this may be done, and perhaps done fometimes without Impropriety. But ihave always fufpected that the Reading is right, which requires many Words...and the Emendation •wrong, that cannot, without fo much Labour, appear to be right. The Juftnefs of a happy Reftoration ftrikes at once, and the moral... | |
 | 1774 - 372 pages
...without Impropriety. But I have always fufpecfted that the Reading is right, which requires ma-' ny Words to prove it wrong ; and the Emendation wrong, that cannot, without fo much Labour, appear to be right. The Juftnefs of a happy Reftoration ftrikes at once, and the moral... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1778 - 750 pages
...triticifm. All this may be done, and perhaps done fomctimes without impropriety. But I have always fufpcctcd that the reading is right, which requires many words...wrong; and the emendation wrong, that cannot without fo much labour appear to be right. The juftnefs of a happy reftoration llrikes 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. 
