...commonly attains to think right ; and of Cato it has not been unjustly determined that it is rather a poem in dialogue than a drama, rather a succession...emotion ; ' here is ' no magical power of raising fantastic terror or wild anxiety.' The events are expected without solicitude, and are remembered without...

...rhetorical rather than poetic, declamatory rather than dramatic. Johnson aptly described it as "rather a poem in dialogue than a drama, rather a succession...of any state probable or possible in human life." Addison's popularity touched its highest point in the production of 'Cato.' Even his conciliatory nature...

...in his old age he passed on that writer's 'Cato' equally well fits his own ' Irene.' "It is rather a poem in dialogue than a drama, rather a succession...of any state probable or possible in human life." It was in his two imitations of Juvenal's Satires, ' London ' and the ' Vanity of Human Wishes,' that...

...cavalry regiments Turkes, by Richard Knolles, ed. that were to fight at Waterloo ; and 1603, p. 353. than than a drama ; rather a succession of just sentiments...language, than a representation of natural affections. . . . Nothing here " excites or assuages emotion." . . . The events are expected without solicitude,...

...cavalry regiments Turkes, by Richard Knolles, ed. that were to fight at Waterloo ; and 1603, p. 353. than than a drama ; rather a succession of just sentiments...language, than a representation of natural affections. . . . Nothing here " excites or assuages emotion." . . . The events are expected without solicitude,...

...commonly attains to think right ; and of Cato it has not been unjustly determined that it is rather a poem in dialogue than a drama, rather a succession...state probable or possible in human life. Nothing here 1 excites or assuages emotion ;' here is 1no magical power of raising fantastic terror or wild anxiety.'...

...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...elegant language than a representation of natural affec5 tions or of any state probable or possible in human life. Nothing here " excites or assuages...

...[Murphy's Essay, in Johnson's Works, vol. ip 53.] 2 [Johnsoniana, No. 262.] STRICTURES UPON CATO 371 of natural affections, or of any state probable or...emotion-' : here is ' no magical power of raising fantastic terror or wild anxiety.' The events are expected without solicitude, and are remembered without...

...strictures upon Cato. "Of this work," he says, "it has not been unjustly determined that it is rather a poem in dialogue than a drama, rather a succession...sentiments in elegant language than a representation 1 [Murphy's Essay, in Johnson's Works, vol. ip 53.] * [Johnsoniatm, No. 262.] STRICTURES UPON CATO...

...TTOB." " Of ' Cato,' " says Dr. Johnson, " it has not been unjustly determined that it is rather a poem in dialogue than a drama : rather a succession...language than a representation of natural affections." " The character of Cato," writes V, . J. Courthope, 'is an abstraction, round which a number of other...