I have sometimes adopted his restoration of a comma, without inserting the panegyrick in which he celebrated himself for his atchievement.

The exuberant excrescence of his diction I have often lopped, his triumphant exultations over _Pope_ and _Rowe_ I have sometimes suppressed, and his contemptible ostentation I have frequently concealed; but I have in some places shewn him, as he would have shewn himself, for the reader's diversion, that the inflated emptiness of some notes may justify or excuse the contraction of the rest.
_Theobald_, thus weak and ignorant, thus mean and faithless, thus petulant and ostentatious, by the good luck of having _Pope_ for his enemy, has escaped, and escaped alone, with reputation, from this undertaking.

So willingly does the world support those who solicite favour, against those who command reverence; and so easily is he praised, whom no man can envy.
Our authour fell then into the hands of Sir _Thomas Hanmer,_ the _Oxford_ editor, a man, in my opinion, eminently qualified by nature for such studies.

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 despatches its work by the easiest means.

He had undoubtedly read much; his acquaintance with customs, opinions, and traditions, seems to have been large; and he is often learned without shew.