 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. Nothing...  Names of dramas: A-L - Pagina 82door David Erskine Baker - 1812Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 426 pagina’s
...difficult to say any thing new. About things on which the public thinks long, it commonly attains to think right ; and of Cato it has been not unjustly determined,...possible in human life. Nothing here " excites or as" suages emotion :" here is " no magical power of " raising fantastic terror or wild anxiety." The... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 416 pagina’s
...difficult to say any thing new. About things on which the public thinks long, it commonly attains to think right ; and of Cato it has been not unjustly determined,...possible in human life. Nothing here " excites or as" suages emotion :" here is " no magical power of " raising fantastic terror or wild anxiety." The... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 368 pagina’s
...generally too philosophic. What Johnson has said of the tragedy of Cato may be applied to Irene : " It is rather a poem in dialogue than a drama ; rather...language, than a representation of natural affections. Nothing excites or assuages emotion. The events are expected without solicitude, and are remembered... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 436 pagina’s
...generally too philosophic. What Johnson has said of the Tragedy of Cato may be applied to Irene : " It is rather a poem in dialogue than a drama ; rather...language, than a representation of natural affections. Nothing excites or assuages emotion. The events are expected without solicitude, and are remembered... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 446 pagina’s
...not to have intended." C. About things on which the publick thinks long, it commonly attains to think right ; and of Cato it has been not unjustly determined, that it is rather a 7 poem in dialogue than a drama, rather a succession of just sentiments in elegant language, than a... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 514 pagina’s
...generally too philosophic. What Johnson has said of the tragedy of Cato, may be applied to Irene : " It is rather a poem in dialogue than a drama; rather...language, than a representation of natural affections. Nothing excites or assuages emotion. The events are expected without solicitude, and are remembered... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pagina’s
...generally too philosophic. What Johnson has said of the tragedy of Cato, may be applied to Irene : " It is rather a poem in dialogue than a drama; rather...language, than a representation of natural affections. Nothing excites or assuages emotion. The events are expected without solicitude, and are remembered... | |
 | 1826 - 372 pagina’s
...CATO." The tragedy of Cato is, unquestionably, the noblest production of Addison's 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 6rst four acts many years before it was produced.... | |
 | 1826 - 384 pagina’s
...the noblest production of Addison's genius, although it is rather a poem in dialogue than a drama j rather a succession of just sentiments in elegant...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.... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 516 pagina’s
...or two devotional hymns, and his tragedy of Cato. The latter production, in Dr. Johnson's language, is rather a poem in dialogue than a drama, rather...or of any state probable or possible in human life. His life was divided between literature and politics, and he is a solitary example of a poet rising... | |
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