Library of Formatting Examples:Italics/38A

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"With the rest of his (Hunt's) young people I have no acquaintance,
except through some things of theirs (which have been sent out without
my desire), and I confess that till I had read them I was not aware of
the full extent of human absurdity. Like Garrick's 'Ode to Shakespeare,'
<i>they 'defy criticism.'</i>[** 1 markup or 2?] These are of the personages who decry Pope....
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Quotation marks; exceptions to the Guidelines

A difficult structure to format. This approach keeps the emphasized text together. Originally, it was done as: <i>they</i> '<i>defy criticism</i>.' because that conforms to Guidelines. After several experts reviewed it, the single markup made more sense, as did leaving a [**note] for the Post-Processor.