 | Wolf Gerhard Schmidt - Literary forgeries and mystifications - 2003 - 612 pages
...I believe they never existed in any other form than that which we have seen. The editor, or author, never could shew the original; nor can it be shewn...acquainted; and stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt.69 Johnsons Attacken gegen Ossian stehen in unmittelbarem Zusammenhang mit der von ihm vertretenen... | |
 | John T. Lynch - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 244 pages
...Western Islands is well known: "The editor, or author, never could shew the original," he complained. "To revenge reasonable incredulity, by refusing evidence,...insolence, with which the world is not yet acquainted." Thus his insistence that "It would be easy to shew it if he had it."51 As he said to Boswell, "Let... | |
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I believe they never existed in any other form than that which we have seen. The editor, or author, never could shew the original; nor can it be shewn by any other; to revenge reasonable incredulity, by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence, with... 
