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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. "
The Works of Samuel Johnson.LL.D..: Philological tracts. Political essays ... - Page 131
by Samuel Johnson - 1792
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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...precept may be well applied to criticifm, quod dubitas »? feceris. To dread the more which he fees fpread with wrecks, is natural to the failor. I had before...
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The Plays of William Shakespeare in Eight Volumes: With the ..., Volume 1

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 the moral precept may...
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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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The plays of Shakespeare, from the text of S. Johnson, with the ..., Volume 1

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...once, and the moral precept may be well applied to criticifin, jatd dubisat nefcrerh, To dread the fhore which he fees fpread with wrecks, is natural...
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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...right. The juftnefs of a happy reftoration ftrikes at and the moral precept may be well applied to criticifin, quod dubitas ne feceris. »_ To dread the...
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Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces, Volume 2

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...to Criticifm, quod dubitas ne feceris. To dread the Shore which he fees fpread with "Wrecks, is natural to the Sailor. I had before my Eye fo many critical...
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Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces, Volume 2

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...Precept may be well applied to Criticifm, quod dubitas nefcceris. To dread the Shore which he fees, fpread with Wrecks, is natural to the Sailor. I had before...
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Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces, Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - English literature - 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...the moral Precept may be well applied to Criticifm, q uod dubltas ne feceris. To dread the Shore which he fees fpread with Wrecks, is natural to the Sailor....
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Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces. ...

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,...to Criticifm, quod dubitas ne feceris. To dread the Shore which he fees fpread with Wrecks, is natural to the Sailor. I had before my Eye fo many critical...
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Miscellaneous and Fugitive Pieces, Volume 2

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...Labour, appear to be right. The Juftnefs of a happy Re- . Iteration ftrikes at Once, and the moral Precept may be well applied to Criticifm, quod dubitas...
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