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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. "
Memoirs of the Life of Gilbert Wakefield - Page 448
by Gilbert Wakefield - 1804
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 420 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...The justness of a happy restoration strikes at once, and the moral precept may be well applied to criticism, quod dubltas ne feceris. To dread the shore...
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The Imperial magazine; or, Compendium of religious, moral ..., Volume 5

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,...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 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...The justness of a happy restoration strikes at once, and the moral precept may be well applied to criticism, dubitas nefeceris. To dread the shore which...
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections ..., Volume 1

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...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 moral...
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The plays of William Shakspeare, pr. from the text of the ..., Volume 1

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...The justness of a happy restoration strikes at once, and the moral precept may be well applied to criticism, quod dubitasne feceris. critical adventures...
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The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, in Ten Volumes: The author's life ...

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...The justness of a happy restoration strikes at once, and the moral precept may be : well applied to criticism, quod dubitas ne feceris. To dread the shore...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

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...justness of a happy restoration, strikes at once, and the moral precept may be welj applied to criticism, quad dubitas ne feceris. To dread the shore...
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Philological tracts, &c

Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1823 - 432 pages
...this may be done, and perhaps done some times without impropriety. But I have always sus-~| pected that the reading is right, which requires many words...wrong, that cannot without so much labour appear to bej right. The justness of a happy restoration strikes at once, and the moral precept may be well applied...
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The works of Samuel Johnson [ed. by F.P. Walesby].

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...The justness of a happy restoration strikes at once, and the moral precept may be well applied to criticism, " quod dubitas ne feceris." To dread the shore...
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The Works of Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Steevens, and Reed

William Shakespeare - Actors - 1825 - 1010 pages
...criticism. All this may be done, and perhaps done sometimes without impropriety. Rut f have always suspected and the moral precept may be well applied to criticism, " quod dubitas ne leceris." To dread the shore...
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