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Page 122
... virtue do not go necessarily together . Cato is the hero of Lucan ; but Lucan's author- ity will not be suffered by Quintilian to decide . However , if success be necessary , Adam's deceiver was at last crushed ; Adam was restored to ...
... virtue do not go necessarily together . Cato is the hero of Lucan ; but Lucan's author- ity will not be suffered by Quintilian to decide . However , if success be necessary , Adam's deceiver was at last crushed ; Adam was restored to ...
Page 165
... virtue in his companion has no virtue in him- self , those whom Otway frequented had no purpose of doing more for him than to pay his reckoning . They desired only to drink and laugh ; their fondness was with- out benevolence , and ...
... virtue in his companion has no virtue in him- self , those whom Otway frequented had no purpose of doing more for him than to pay his reckoning . They desired only to drink and laugh ; their fondness was with- out benevolence , and ...
Page 187
... virtue ; and virtue his poet thought himself at liberty to supply . Charles had yet only the merit of struggling without success , and suffering without despair . A life of escapes and indigence could supply poetry with no splendid ...
... virtue ; and virtue his poet thought himself at liberty to supply . Charles had yet only the merit of struggling without success , and suffering without despair . A life of escapes and indigence could supply poetry with no splendid ...
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