...change is too much delighted to consider what objections may rise against it. Yet conjectural criticism has been of great use in the learned world; nor is...intention to depreciate a study that has exercised 1 'Evanescent': 'Vanishing; imperceptible; lessening beyond the perception of the senses'. 'Discursive':...

...legacy: he places himself at the end of an exalted tradition when he writes, "Conjectural criticism has been of great use in the learned world; nor is...minds, from the revival of learning to our own age," and follows this passage with allusions to Scaliger and Lipsius.4' He has Scaliger in mind when he...

...is too much delighted to consider what objections may rise against it"; "Yet conjectural criticism has been of great use in the learned world; nor is...study, that has exercised so many mighty minds.'" Many of the mighty minds of recent years have spoken out against conjectural criticism, or at least...