Chatelain's genius as an emendator of Shakespeare.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873] Reference

To have taken so avowed a part in the first publication and none except that of corrector of the press and occasional emendator in this would I think have had a strange and undesirable appearance for you and for the poems: as if I had changed my mind as to you or them or both.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letter 59] Reference

J.P. Collier in his edition of 1844 leaned, on the other hand, to the side of the Quartos, but later became a clever if somewhat rash emendator, who spoiled his reputation by seeking to obtain authority for his guesses by forging them in a seventeenth-century hand in a copy of the second.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Facts About Shakespeare] Reference

Dyer pointed out — of course I have your permission to be plenipo-emendator.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coleridge & Southey Letters] Reference

One of the misprints which Mr. Spedding notices affords both a hint and a warning to the conjectural emendator.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among My Books First Series] Reference

Earlier in life he had nourished a hope that his name might become illustrious as the emendator of the 'Commentaries of John, Archbishop of Canterbury on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jerome Cardan A Biographical Study] Reference

It must, indeed, be confessed that the conjectural emendator, if he dispenses with the quasi-authority of contemporary precedents, has an all but unlimited range for the exercise of his ingenuity, the unsettled spellings of our.    From Wordnik.com.  [Literary Blunders] Reference

It must, indeed, be confessed that the conjectural emendator, if he dispenses with the quasi-authority of contemporary precedents, has an all but unlimited range for the exercise of his ingenuity, the unsettled spellings of our ancestors rendering almost any emendation, however extravagant, a typographical possibility.    From Wordnik.com.  [Literary Blunders; A chapter in the "History of Human Error"] Reference

Notes and Emendations from which he dissents, MR. SINGER should not have noticed those which he regards with favour; and that, in his anxiety to vindicate the purity of Shakspeare's text from the anonymous emendator, he should have embodied that vindication in language, which, though we are quite sure it is unintentional on his part, gives his book almost a personal character, instead of one purely critical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 187, May 28, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference

I walked -- ye gods, how I did walk -- no wonder, by the by, that I mended my pace, for as Pliny says truly: 'Timor est emendator asperrimus.'".    From Wordnik.com.  [Pelham — Complete] Reference