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We cannot hesitate to infer that there must have been _something more than mere conjecture_,--some authority from which they were derived.... The consideration of the nine omitted lines stirs up Mr. Collier to a little greater boldness on the question of authority; but, after all, we do not think he goes the full length which the facts would warrant.
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The folio never had any ascertained external authority. All the warrant it has ever brought to reasonable critics is internal.
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If anybody, in the heat of argument, ever claimed for them [the MS. readings] a right of acceptance beyond the emendations of Theobald, Malone, Dyce, and Singer, (that is, a right not justified by their obvious utility or beauty,) such a claim must have been untenable, by whomsoever urged.
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proof of the modern origin of one of those authorities, the folio of 1632. Upon all these points the case of Mr. Collier's accusers breaks down. It is found, for instance, that in the folio an interpolated line in
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Coriolanus,
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To brook _controul_ without the use of anger,
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Notes and Emendations, in his fac-similes made for private distribution, in his vile one-volume Shakespeare, and in the
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List, etc., appended to the
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Seven Lectures.
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To brook _reproof_ without the use of anger,
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Is it not possible that here Mr. Collier's remarkable memory is too retentive, and that, though second thoughts may be best, first thoughts are sometimes inconveniently remembered to the prejudice of the second?