...Correspondence). 3 Mrs. Greville of Sterne. 4 Life of Burney. 5 I bid. ci Life by Johnson. 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. 1 Seldom any splendid story is wholly true....

...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 labor appear to be right. The justness of a happy restoration strikes at once, and the moral precept...

...requires many words to prove it wrong ; end the emendation wrong, that cannot without so much labor appear to be right. The justness of a happy restoration strikes at once, and the moral precept may be well applied to criticism, quod dubitas nefeceris. To dread the shore...

...restoration, Bentley's recal his saying about doubtful alterations, for we cannot help "suspecting that the reading is right which requires many words to prove it wrong, and that the emendation is wrong, which cannot without so much labour appear to be right." Thus in one...

...perhaps done sometimes without impropriety. But I have always suspected that the reading is rignt, which requires many words to prove it wrong ; and...The justness of a happy restoration strikes at once, and the moral precept may be well applied to criticism, quod dubitas ne fecerig The critics of ancient...

...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 to prove it wrong; and DR. JOHNSON'S FREFACB. . ciii the emendation wrong, that cannot without so much labor appear to bo...

...criticism. All this may be done, and perhaps done sometimes without impropriety. But I have always suspected thp* cannot without so much labour appear to be right. The justness of a happy restoration strikes...

...employed for a time in the interest of virtue. idler, No. 4. Emendations : 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 nefeceris. Works, v. 15o. Emigration...

...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...

...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...