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Pàgina 329
... Cato . Such at leaft is the relation of Tickell . Perhaps he only collected his materials , and formed his plan . Whatever were his other employments in Italy , he there wrote the letter to lord Hali- * Spence , fax , which is justly ...
... Cato . Such at leaft is the relation of Tickell . Perhaps he only collected his materials , and formed his plan . Whatever were his other employments in Italy , he there wrote the letter to lord Hali- * Spence , fax , which is justly ...
Pàgina 345
... Cato came upon the ftage , was the grand climacterick of Addison's reputation . Upon the death of Cato , he had , as is faid , planned a tragedy in the time of his travels , and had for several years the four first acts finished , which ...
... Cato came upon the ftage , was the grand climacterick of Addison's reputation . Upon the death of Cato , he had , as is faid , planned a tragedy in the time of his travels , and had for several years the four first acts finished , which ...
Pàgina 346
... Cato was made publick by any change of the author's purpose ; for Dennis charged him with rais- ing prejudices in his own favour by false po- fitions of preparatory criticism , and with poifaning the town by contradicting in the ...
... Cato was made publick by any change of the author's purpose ; for Dennis charged him with rais- ing prejudices in his own favour by false po- fitions of preparatory criticism , and with poifaning the town by contradicting in the ...
Pàgina 347
... and was now , with more efficacy , practifed for Cato . The danger was foon over , The whole nation was at that time on fire with faction , * Spence , The The He The Whigs applauded every line in which Liberty ADDI 3 O N. 347.
... and was now , with more efficacy , practifed for Cato . The danger was foon over , The whole nation was at that time on fire with faction , * Spence , The The He The Whigs applauded every line in which Liberty ADDI 3 O N. 347.
Pàgina 349
... Cato offered to the reader , than it was attacked by the acute malignity of Dennis , with all the violence of angry criticism . Dennis , though equally zealous , and probably by his temper more furious than Addison , for what they ...
... Cato offered to the reader , than it was attacked by the acute malignity of Dennis , with all the violence of angry criticism . Dennis , though equally zealous , and probably by his temper more furious than Addison , for what they ...
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