 It is not easy for invention to bring together so many causes concurring to vitiate a text. No other author ever gave up his works to fortune and time with so little care; no books could be left in hands so likely to injure them, as plays frequently acted,...  Proceedings of the Canadian Institute - Page 392by Canadian Institute - 1884Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1858 - 830 pages
...enumerating the various circumstances which tended to the corruption of Shakespeare's text, observes, " od words, I think, were best. SAL. Our griefs, and not our manners, reason now. BAST. But t No other author ever gave up his works to fortune and time with so little care ; no books could be... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1858 - 836 pages
...enumerating the various circumstances which tended to the corruption of Shakespeare's text, observes, " h roll To every varied object in his glance : Which party-coated presence of loose love Put No other author ever gave up his works to fortune and time with so little care ; no books could be... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1862 - 964 pages
...enumerating the various circumstances which tended to the corruption of Shakespeare's text, observes, " h life) voice, No other author ever gave up his works to fortune and time with so little care ; no books could be... | |
 | Literary and Historical Society of Quebec - 1863 - 162 pages
...admirable edition of Shakespeare, quotes the following just remarks of Dr. Johnson on this subject. "It is " not easy for invention to bring together so many " causes concurring to vitiate a text, no other author ever " gave up his works to fortune and time with so little care. " No books could... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 pages
...negligence of the printers, as every man who knows the state of the press in that age will readily conceive. It is not easy for invention to bring together so many causes concurring to vitiate the text. No other author ever gave up his works to fortune and time with so little care ; no books... | |
 | 1869 - 898 pages
...negligence of the printers, as every man who knows the state of the press in that ago will readily conceive. It is not easy for invention to bring together so many causes concurring to vitiate the text. No other author ever gave up his works to fortune and time with so little care ; no books... | |
 | Canadian Institute - 1884 - 880 pages
...any one who should disturb his bones, we cannot but regret that the poet who concerned himself somuch about the safeguarding of his earthly part, should...Shakespeare's plays, Johnson truly says, " It is not easy for inv< ntion to bring together so many causes concurring to vitiate a text." -Illiterate copyists, blundering... | |
 | Beverley Ellison Warner - 1906 - 328 pages
...of the printers, as every man who knows the state of the press in that age will readily conceive. " It is not easy for invention to bring together so many causes concurring to vitiate a text. No other author ever gave up his works to fortune and time with so little care ; no books could be... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1908 - 254 pages
...negligence of the printers, as every man who knows the state of the press in that age will readily conceive. It is not easy for invention to bring together so many causes concurring to vitiate the text. No other author ever gave up his works to fortune and time with so little care : no books... | |
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