 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
 | Alfred William Pollard - 1920 - 148 pages
...was the art of printing in such unskilful hands. It is curious that when Johnson wrote the sentence : 'It is not easy for invention to bring together so many causes concurring to vitiate a text,' he should not have paused to ask himself how many of his confident statements were based upon any kind... | |
 | Alvin B. Kernan - 1989 - 384 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 a text. No other authour ever gave up his works to fortune and time with so little care: no books could be... | |
 | Mcgann - 2014 - 180 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 a text. No other authour ever gave up his works to fortune and time with so little care: no books could be... | |
 | W. Speed Hill, Edward M. Burns, Peter L. Shillingsburg - 1997 - 458 pages
...inauspicious, surreptitious. As Johnson famously puts it in overstating the case in his Proposals: It is not easy for invention to bring together so many causes concurring to vitiate a text no books could be left in hands so likely to injure them, as plays frequently acted, yet continued... | |
 | Stephen Orgel, Sean Keilen - 1999 - 356 pages
...Shakespearian text in the middle of the eighteenth century is frequently cited to typify the resultant gloom: 'It is not easy for invention to bring together so many causes concurring to vitiate a text.'i6 And it still prevailed r50 years later in Sidney Lee's assessment: It is not easy to exaggerate... | |
 | John T. Lynch - 2003 - 244 pages
...and hastily, they suffered another depravation from the ignorance and negligence of the printers ... It is not easy for invention to bring together so many causes concurring to vitiate a text. No other authour ever gave up his works to fortune and time with so little care . . . and in no other... | |
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