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For the art of writing is combined with that of
speaking, and correct reading precedes interpretation, while in each of these cases criticism has its
work to perform. The old school of teachers indeed
carried their criticism so far that they were not
content with obelising lines or rejecting books whose
titles they regarded as spurious, as though they
were expelling a supposititious child from the family
circle, but also drew up a canon of authors, from
which some were omitted altogether.
Quintilian. With an English Translation. Harold Edgeworth Butler. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1920.
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