"Conjecturer" Quotes from Famous Books
... 'The conjecturer is out, and knows nothing of the matter. I had a better origin than he could devise or divine ... — Lady Byron Vindicated • Harriet Beecher Stowe
... in a state of depravation through all the editions is indubitably certain; of these the restoration is only to be attempted by collation of copies or sagacity of conjecture. The collator's province is safe and easy, the conjecturer's perilous and difficult. Yet as the greater part of the plays are extant only in one copy, the peril must not be avoided, nor ... — Preface to Shakespeare • Samuel Johnson |