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Page 251
... success . The partisans of old Crébillon were few , but noisy ; and they did not cease to call him the Sophocles of our age ; and even among men of letters Marivaux used to say , that all the fine wit of Voltaire must bow before the ...
... success . The partisans of old Crébillon were few , but noisy ; and they did not cease to call him the Sophocles of our age ; and even among men of letters Marivaux used to say , that all the fine wit of Voltaire must bow before the ...
Page 260
... success ; for the operation is confessedly of so deli- cate a nature , that he himself obtained only four successful results , out of ( as he computes ) nearly a thousand trials . Such a degree of uncertainty cannot but tend very ...
... success ; for the operation is confessedly of so deli- cate a nature , that he himself obtained only four successful results , out of ( as he computes ) nearly a thousand trials . Such a degree of uncertainty cannot but tend very ...
Page 538
... success did not pre- vent men of taste from being shocked by the incongruities of this strange mixture of incidents without connection , of adventures des- titute of probability and often even of decency . Tasso rose superior to the bad ...
... success did not pre- vent men of taste from being shocked by the incongruities of this strange mixture of incidents without connection , of adventures des- titute of probability and often even of decency . Tasso rose superior to the bad ...
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