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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 440
by Gilbert Wakefield - 1804
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Mr. Johnson's Preface to His Edition of Shakespear's Plays..

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...
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The plays of William Shakespeare, with the corrections and illustr ..., Volume 1

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...
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Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of Windsor

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...
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Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces, Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - 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...
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Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces, Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - 1774 - 374 pages
...Criticifm. All this may be done, and perhaps done fometimes without Impropriety. But 1 have always fufpeeted 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...
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The Beauties of Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations ..., Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - 1782 - 482 pages
...excellence out of the reach of rules. Ditto, ditto, p. i30. That reading may generally be fufpected to be right, which requires many words to prove it wrong; and the emendation wrong, which cannot, without fo much labour, appear to be right, Preface to Shakefpeare, p. 66. CONVICT. •%....
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The Dramatick Writings of Will. Shakspere: With the Notes of All ..., Volume 1

William Shakespeare - 1788 - 346 pages
...critscism. All this may be done, and perhaps done sometimes without impropriety. But I have always suspefted 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, •fuod dubitas nefeceris. To dread the shore...
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The Plays of William Shakspeare: In Fifteen Volumes. With the Corrections ...

William Shakespeare - 1793 - 860 pages
...criticifm. All this may be done, and perhaps done fometimes without impropriety. But I have always fufpedted 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...
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The Plays of William Shakspeare. ....

William Shakespeare - 1800 - 330 pages
...criticifm. All this may be done, and perhaps done fometimes without impropriety. But I have always fufpecied that the reading is right, which requires many words to prove it wrong; and the emend.iton wrong, tlrtt caivnot without io much labour appear to be right. The juftnefs of a happy...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 454 pages
...may be done, and perhaps done fometimes Without impropriety. But 1 have always fuipected •^ that 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 rcftoration ftrikes at once, and the moral...
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