...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...cannot without so much labour appear to be right. The7 justness of a happy restoration strikes at once, and the moral precept may be well applied to...

...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...

...disquisition ; and Johnson might have remembered and applied his own warning : ' I have always suspected that the reading is right, which requires many words...cannot without so much labour appear to be right.' Johnson's treatment of his predecessors and rivals is uniformly generous ; he never attempts to raise...

...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...labour appear to be right. The justness of a happy restsration strikes at once, and the moral precept may be well applied to criticism, quod dubitas ne...

...disquisition ; and Johnson might have remembered and applied his own warning : ' I have always suspected that the reading is right, which requires many words...cannot without so much labour appear to be right.' Johnson's treatment of his predecessors and rivals is uniformly generous; he never attempts to raise...

...this other excellent remark, confirming his attitude upon textual criticism: " I have always suspected that the reading is right, which requires many words...cannot without so much labour appear to be right." From this sound statement of his views he proceeds to apologize for the inadequacy of his edition,...

...writing notes is not of difficult attainment. All this may be done---. But I have always suspected that the reading is right, which requires many words to prove it 7/rong; and the emendation wrong, that cannot without so much labour appear to be right. The justness...

.... 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 feccris. To dread the shore...

...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...

...Correspondents', in The Faber Book of Useful Verse (1981), p. 157 [cf. 49:58] 48:28 I have always suspected that the reading is right which requires many words to prove it wrong, and the emendation wrong which cannot without so much labour appear to be right. Samuel Johnson, 1765, Preface to Shakespeare...