 | Samuel Johnson - 1858 - 418 pàgines
...on which the public thinks long, it commonly attains to think right, and of "Cato" it has been not unjustly determined, that it is rather a poem in dialogue...state probable or possible in human life. Nothing here " excites_ or assuages emotion:" here is "no magical power of raising phantastic terror or wild anxiety."... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1859 - 750 pàgines
...description can be found of ' Irene ' than in his strictures upon ' Cato.' ' Of this work,' he says, ' it has not been unjustly determined that it is rather...emotion " : here is " no magical power of raising fantastic terror or wild anxiety." The events are expected without solicitude, and arc remembered without... | |
 | 1859 - 578 pàgines
...description can be found of ' Irene ' than in his strictures upon ' Cato.' ' Of this work',' he says, ' it has not been unjustly determined that it is rather...emotion " : here is " no magical power of raising fantastic terror or wild anxiety." The events are expected without solicitude, and are remembered without... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1859 - 750 pàgines
...description can be found of ' Irene ' than in his strictures upon ' Cato.' ' Of this work,' he says, ' it has not been unjustly determined that it is rather...emotion " : here is " no magical power of raising fantastic terror or wild anxiety." The events are expected without solicitude, and are remembered without... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1859 - 584 pàgines
...description can be found of ' Irene ' than in his strictures upon ' Cato.' ' Of this work,' he says, ' it has not been unjustly determined that it is rather...emotion " : here is '- no magical power of raising fantastic terror or wild anxiety." The events arc expected without solicitude, and are remembered without... | |
 | 1859 - 650 pàgines
...description can be found of ' Irene ' than iu bos strictures upon 'Cato.' 'Of this work,' he says, 'it has not been unjustly determined that it is rather...assuages emotion:" here is "no magical power of raising fantastic terror or wild anxiety." The events are expected without solicitude, and are remembered without... | |
 | 1899 - 312 pàgines
...example of stately rhetoric, as was said, "a rhetoric not unworthy of Lucinn." Johnson says of " Cato,'' that "it is rather a poem in dialogue than a drama,...sentiments in elegant language, than a representation of neutral affections or of any state probable or possible in human life." Addison as the censor of con... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1870 - 586 pàgines
...things on which the public thinks long, it commonly attains to think right; and of Cato it has been not unjustly determined, that it is rather a poem in dialogue...than a drama, rather a succession of just sentiments in.elegant language, than a representation of natural affections, or of any state probable or possible... | |
 | James Mason - 1875 - 674 pàgines
...Addison as a poet, the Tragedy of Cato is unquestionably the noblest production of his genius, although it is rather a poem in dialogue than a drama ; rather...or of any state probable or possible in human life. He planned the tragedy during his travels, and wrote the first four acts many years before it was produced.... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1880 - 596 pàgines
...it commonly attains to think right ; and of Cato it has been not unjustly determined, that it ia \ rather a poem in dialogue than a drama, rather a succession...emotion : ' here is ' no magical power of raising phantastie terror or wild anxiety." The events are expected without solicitude, and >•• are remembered... | |
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Cato' it has been not unjustly determined, that it is rather a poem in dialogue than a drama, rather a succession of just sentiments in elegant language, than a representation of natural affections, or of any state probable or possible in human life.... 
