emendators

Hence, the restorers of readings, the emendators, the bibliomaniacs of all degrees.

The American Scholar 2006

Hence, the restorers of readings, the emendators, the bibliomaniacs of all degrees.

I. Essays. The American Scholar. An Oration Delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, at Cambridge, August 31, 1837 1909

Hence, the restorers of readings—the emendators, the bibliomaniacs of all degrees.

On the American Scholar 1906

What splendid emendators of a corrupt text they ought to make!

The Note-Books of Samuel Butler Samuel Butler 1868

The plea of correction and improvement, irrefragable as it may be, when applied to his judicious touch, is very liable to be urged or assumed with equal success by the most dishonest or incompetent emendators.

Sacred Poems and Hymns 1771-1854 1854

Hence, the restorers of readings, the emendators, the bibliomaniacs of all degrees.

Nature: Addresses and Lectures (1849) 1849

Hence the restorers of readings, [21] the emendators, [22] the bibliomaniacs [23] of all degrees.

Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson 1842

Modern scholarship, however, has come to recognize the primacy of Theobald among emendators of Shakespeare's text, and the most famous of his contributions, his correction of "a table of green fields" to "'a babled of green fields," in Quickly's account of the death of Falstaff in _Henry V_, II.iii. 17, is only a specially brilliant example of the combination of acuteness, learning, and sympathy which made his edition a landmark in the history of the text.

The Facts About Shakespeare William Allan Nielson

But though I disapprove and dissent from many of their views, and regret many of their pro - ceedings, yet the depths of my heart are with the primi - tive Puritans and the Scottish Covenanters; and even their errors I deem of nobler kind than the frigid merits of some of the emendators of their policy. "

Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society 1792