He had, what is the first requisite to Emendatory criticism, that intuition by which the poet's intention is immediately discovered, and that dexterity of intellect which dispatches its work by the easiest means.
"Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare"
D. Nichol Smith
What he undertook he has well enough performed, but as he neither attempts judicial nor Emendatory criticism, he employs rather his memory than his sagacity.
"Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare"
D. Nichol Smith
The notes which I have borrowed or written are either illustrative, by which difficulties are explained; or judicial, by which faults and beauties are remarked; or Emendatory, by which depravations are corrected.
"Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare"
D. Nichol Smith