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He grounds his belief, not on the misprinting of words, but on the misplacing of whole paragraphs. We were struck with the same thing in the original edition of Chapman's Biron's Conspiracy and Tragedy. One of the misprints which Mr. Spedding notices affords both a hint and a warning to the conjectural emendator.
I walked ye gods, how I did walk no wonder, by the by, that I mended my pace, for as Pliny says truly: 'Timor est emendator asperrimus." Mr. Wormwood had been very impatient during this recital, preparing an attack upon Lord Vincent, when Mr. Davison entering suddenly, diverted the assault. "Good God!" said Wormwood, dropping his roll, "how very ill you look to- day, Mr.
I walked ye gods, how I did walk no wonder, by the by, that I mended my pace, for as Pliny says truly: 'Timor est emendator asperrimus." Mr. Wormwood had been very impatient during this recital, preparing an attack upon Lord Vincent, when Mr. Davison entering suddenly, diverted the assault. "Good God!" said Wormwood, dropping his roll, "how very ill you look to-day, Mr.
Earlier in life he had nourished a hope that his name might become illustrious as the emendator of the 'Commentaries of John, Archbishop of Canterbury on Optics and Perspective. Indeed the following verses were printed thereanent: 'Hoc Cardana viro gaudet domus: omnia novit Unus: habent nullum saecula nostra parem.
Is the substitute to be compared with it? Ask the landscape painter! He will admire the one he will enjoy the other. Who substituted the one for the other? Did Collins write both, and was dubious which should stand; or do you discover the hand of an audacious emendator?
Spedding notices affords both a hint and a warning to the conjectural emendator. In the edition of "The Advancement of Learning" printed in 1605 occurs the word dusinesse. In a later edition this was conjecturally changed to business; but the occurrence of vertigine in the Latin translation enables Mr. Spedding to print rightly, dizziness.
When once, in the case of Blake, the slightest deviation has been made from the authoritative version, it is hardly possible to stop there. The emendator is on an inclined plane which leads him inevitably from readjustments of punctuation to corrections of grammar, and from corrections of grammar to alterations of rhythm; if he is in for a penny, he is in for a pound.
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