You do not emend Housman, perhaps the most forbidding textual commentator in the history of English-speaking scholarship, and get off lightly. |
Fraternal correction consists of trying to emend the brothers through charity and not to punish them. |
Many modern editions, including the Oxford, take the view that the novel in part derives from the play, and use it to emend the defective quarto text. |
The egg case secreted by the Cenozoic argonautids was shaped like Cretaceous ammonites, which their ancestors used to occupy and emend. |
Some critical scholar of eminence should be called upon to emend or explain this mysterious passage. |
The Diccionario de Plantas AgrÃcolas and Zander refer to this species under the name R. spicatum Robs. emend. |