 | Robert William Chapman - 1920 - Broj stranica: 166
...; but conjecture is never inadmissible, and emendations may sometimes be probable. Johnson's rule ' always to turn the old text on every side, and try...any interstice, through which light can find its way ', is sound ; and in a writer ' so licentious as Shakespeare ' few emendations can ever be considered... | |
 | 1909 - Broj stranica: 498
...middle way between presumption and timidity. Such criticism I have attempted to practice, and where any passage appeared inextricably perplexed, have...interstice, through which light can find its way ; nor would Huetins himself condemn me, as refusing the trouble of research, for the ambition of alteration. In... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1908 - Broj stranica: 256
...middle way between presumption and timidity. Such criticism I have attempted to practice, and where any passage appeared inextricably perplexed, have...there be any interstice, through which light can find ,,.1', its way ; nor would Huetius himself condemn me, as refusing the trouble of research, for the... | |
 | Alvin B. Kernan - 1989 - Broj stranica: 384
...makes clear both how substantial the text was for him and the way in which meaning was inscribed in it, "my first labour is, always to turn the old text on...interstice, through which light can find its way. . . ." Notes keyed to the text are characteristic products of print, made possible by ils technology... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - Broj stranica: 585
...middle way between presumption and timidity. Such criticism I have attempted to practise, and where any passage appeared inextricably perplexed have endeavoured...interstice through which light can find its way; nor would Huetius himself condemn me as refusing the trouble of research for the ambition of alteration. In this... | |
 | Marcus Walsh - 2004 - Broj stranica: 244
...early textual authorities as we have them: 'where any passage appeared inextricably perplexed, [I] have endeavoured to discover how it may be recalled...be any interstice, through which light can find its way.'143 Few moments in Johnson's editorial writings are more resonant than this figure of his struggle... | |
 | Marcus Walsh - 1997 - Broj stranica: 244
...early textual authorities as we have them: 'where any passage appeared inextricably perplexed, [I] have endeavoured to discover how it may be recalled...interstice, through which light can find its way.' 143 Few moments injohnson's editorial writings are more resonant than this figure of his struggle with... | |
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I have attempted to practise, and where any passage appeared inextricably perplexed, have endeavoured to discover how it may be recalled to sense, with least violence. But my first labour is, always to turn the old text on every side, and try if there... 
