The rhetoric of textual criticism/textual criticism as rhetoric
Richard Tarrant
It is not easy to discover from what cause the acrimony of a scholiast can naturally proceed … The various readings copies, and different interpretations passage, seem be questions that might exercise wit, without engaging passions Perhaps lightness matter may conduce vehemence agency; when truth investigated so near inexistence, as escape attention, its bulk enlarged by rage exclamation.(Johnson, Preface Shakespeare)
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