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Page 126
... success and virtue do not go necessarily to- gether . Cato is the hero of Lucan ; but Lucan's authority will not be suffered by Quintilian to decide . However , if success be necessary , Adam's deceiver was at last crushed ; Adam was ...
... success and virtue do not go necessarily to- gether . Cato is the hero of Lucan ; but Lucan's authority will not be suffered by Quintilian to decide . However , if success be necessary , Adam's deceiver was at last crushed ; Adam was ...
Page 268
... success . From such a number of theatrical pieces it will be supposed , by most readers , that he must have im- proved his fortune ; at least , that such diligence with such abilities must have set penury at defiance . But in Dryden's ...
... success . From such a number of theatrical pieces it will be supposed , by most readers , that he must have im- proved his fortune ; at least , that such diligence with such abilities must have set penury at defiance . But in Dryden's ...
Page 353
... success- ful , and have produced them . And one reason of that success is , in my opinion , this , that Shakespeare and Fletcher have written to the genius of the age and nation in which they lived ; for though nature , as he objects ...
... success- ful , and have produced them . And one reason of that success is , in my opinion , this , that Shakespeare and Fletcher have written to the genius of the age and nation in which they lived ; for though nature , as he objects ...
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