human
for fac-simile not merely because of the marked character of its chirography. It has other significance. Mr. Collier asks,
gpt
What is gained by it? and says, that, as there is no corresponding change in the text,
human
[oo] It is, of course, no explanation; but it seems plainly that it is the memorandum for a proposed, but abandoned, substitution. Who that is familiar with the corrections in Mr. Collier's folio does not recognize this as one of those which have been so felicitously described by an American critic as taking
gpt
And crook the begging hinges of the knee
human
Dost thou hear, ) he finally came to the conclusion, that, although he, and many a respectable poet, might have written
gpt
in this passage, Shakespeare was just the man to write
human
--an instance of critical sagacity of which he has left us few examples. Now it is remarkable that the majority of the changes proposed by Mr. Collier in the notes to this edition of Shakespeare (8 vols., 8vo., 1842-3) evince a capacity for the apprehension of figurative language and for conjectural emendation of the very calibre indicated by this proposed change of
gpt
to
human
He has throughout his literary career, which began, we believe, with the publication of the
gpt
Poetical Decameron,