Let a "composition" be defective; let an emendation be wrought in its mere arrangement of form; let this emendation be submitted to every artist in the world; by each will its necessity be admitted.
Allow me to send you an emendation of the usual readings of the 513th line of the first Georgic, which occurred to me many years ago, and which still appears to me more satisfactory than any which have hitherto been suggested.
Theobald's emendation 'eyeless' is received into the text.
Pope makes a bold emendation here: 'Then thus, my friends.
The objection to the usual emendation is that throughout the scene King Philip is not designated in the stage directions as King, but as Fran.
Theobald's emendation was suggested, he says, by a marginal conjecture in an edition of Shakespeare 'by a gentleman sometime deceased.
We have left the reading of the Folios, as no proposed emendationcan be regarded as entirely satisfactory.
Accepting the emendation of de Lollis which substitutes fructas for fuentes, "springs.
Quae si esset, iratum mihi Caesarem esse, cum idem amicus [136] The text here is hopelessly corrupt and no satisfactory emendation has been made.
The text here is corrupt and no convincing emendation has been suggested.
Yet Horace would not have lashed a virtuous and respectable senator; and I must adopt the emendation of Bentley, who reads Labieno insanior, (Serm.
This emendation seems to me to be alike ingenious and well-founded.
The turn given to the thought in the French has suggested to D'Israeli an emendation of the passage in Goldsmith.
Although this emendation in Goldsmith was pointed out many years ago, and recommends itself by its appositeness, and its obvious adaptation to the context, yet I believe it has never been introduced into any edition of that poet.
Warburton had reassigned speeches here] This emendation is judicious, but not necessary.
Of this emendation I find that the author of notes on The Tempest had a glimpse, but could not keep it.
So that my emendation depends only on the opposition of wood to sun-burnt.
This emendation was received in the former edition, but seems not necessary.
And I have found Demetrius like a jewel] [W: gewell] This emendation is ingenious enough to deserve to be true.
Sir Thomas Hammer seems to have supposed unresisting the word in the copies, from which he plausibly enough extracted unresting, but be grounded his emendation on the very syllable that wants authority.
This emendation is one of those of which many may be made; It is such as we may wish the authour had chosen, but which we cannot prove that he did chuse; the reasons for it are plausible, but not cogent.
Warburton's emendation right; yet I have nothing that I can propose with much confidence.
The notation "W: winter" points to an easily recognizable emendation by Warburton in a line quoted before the note in question.
The learned Wouweren has commented long and learnedly upon this passage, and his emendation 'veretriculis' caused me to laugh heartily.
It is an apology for emendation that one of the most celebrated passages in the play is based on conjecture (confirmed by what follows) and on analogy.
But if Theobald's emendation be received, difficulties still remain.
Revisionists' emendationof the place, a palpable mistake.
Adopting the emendation of Kirchhoff, who inserts the sentence in brackets.
The Massoretic text gives the name of the town as Tipsah, but the Septuagint has Taphôt, which led Thenius to suggest Tappuakh as an emendation of Tipsah: Stade prefers the emendation Tirzah.
But in his own edition he retains the old reading 'castle,' while in a note he assigns the emendation to Theobald, and ridicules him for adopting it.
It is not clear whether Mr Collier intends this as a conjectural emendation or not.
Theobald appears to have forgotten that the emendation was suggested to him by Dr Thirlby.
It is probably a printer's emendation in some of the numerous reprints of the play.
On the Improvement of the Understanding (Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect) by Baruch Spinoza [Benedict de Spinoza] Translated by R.
Taken from Curley, Note 3, at end) *This Treatise on theEmendation of the Intellect etc.
It reappears in B, with the easy emendation of facta from fata.
An apparently more certain effort at emendation is reported by Keil on 62, 13, where Aldus is said to differ from all the manuscripts and the editions in reading agere for facere.
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