The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works, Volum 2Nichols and Son, Red-Lion-Passage, Fleet-Street, 1801 |
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Pàgina 213
... Cato . " Such at least 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 Halifax , which is justly confidered as ...
... Cato . " Such at least 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 Halifax , which is justly confidered as ...
Pàgina 223
... Cato came upon the ftage , was the grand climacterick of Addifon's reputation . Upon the death of Cato , he had , as is faid , planned a tragedy in the time of his travels , and had for feveral years the four first acts finished , which ...
... Cato came upon the ftage , was the grand climacterick of Addifon's reputation . Upon the death of Cato , he had , as is faid , planned a tragedy in the time of his travels , and had for feveral years the four first acts finished , which ...
Pàgina 224
... Cato was made publick by any change of the author's purpofe ; for Dennis charged him with raifing prejudices in his own favour by falfe pofitions of preparatory criti- cifm , and with poisoning the town by contradicting in the Spectator ...
... Cato was made publick by any change of the author's purpofe ; for Dennis charged him with raifing prejudices in his own favour by falfe pofitions of preparatory criti- cifm , and with poisoning the town by contradicting in the Spectator ...
Pàgina 225
... Cato * . The danger was foon over . The whole nation was at that time on fire with faction . The Whigs applauded every line in which Liberty was men- tioned , as a fatire on , the Tories ; and the Tories echoed every clap , to fhew that ...
... Cato * . The danger was foon over . The whole nation was at that time on fire with faction . The Whigs applauded every line in which Liberty was men- tioned , as a fatire on , the Tories ; and the Tories echoed every clap , to fhew that ...
Pàgina 226
... 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 tem- per 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 tem- per more furious than Addison for what they ...
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