 | 1781 - Страниц: 754
...which the public thinks long, it commonly attains to think right; and of Cato it bath been not unjuftly determined, that it is rather a poem in dialogue than a drama, rather a fucceflion of jult fentiments in elegant language than a reprefentation of natural affections, or of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - Страниц: 258
...which the publick thinks long, it commonly attains to think right; and of Cato it has been not unjuftly determined, that it is rather a poem in dialogue than a drama, rather a fucceffion of juft fentiments in elegant language than arcprcfentation of. natural affections, or of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - Страниц: 484
...which the publick thinks long, it commonly attains to think right; and of Cato it has been not unjuftly determined, that it is rather a poem in dialogue than a drama, rather a fucceilion of juftfentimentsin elegant language, than a reprefentation of natural affections, or of... | |
 | Several Hands - 1781 - Страниц: 588
...the Public thinks long, it commonly attains to think right ; and of Cato it has b-cn not uiijuilly determined, that it is rather a poem in dialogue than a drama, rather a fucceffion of juil fentiments in elegant language ii .... . , ji ' Spence. than a reprefentation of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - Страниц: 254
...the publick thinks long, it comrnonly attains to think right; and of Cato it has been not unjuftly determined, that it is rather a poem in dialogue than a drama, rather a fucceffion of juft fentiments in elegant language than a reprefentation of natural affections, or of... | |
 | samuel johnson - 1781 - Страниц: 258
...which the publick thinks long, it commonly attains to think right; and of Cato it has been not unjuftly determined, that it is rather a poem in dialogue than a drama, rather a fucceffion of juft lentiments in elegant language than a reprefentation of natural affections, or of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - Страниц: 444
...which the publick thinks long, it commonly attains to think right; and of Cato it has been not unjuftly determined, that it is rather a poem in dialogue than a drama, rather a fucceffion, of juft fentiments in elegant language, than a'reprefentation of natural affections, or... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - Страниц: 652
...generally too philofophic. What Johnfbn has faid of the Tragedy of Cato may be applied to Irene : ** it is rather a poem in " dialogue than a drama ; rather a fucceffion ** of juft fentiments in elegant language, than " a reprefentation of natural affections.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1797 - Страниц: 278
...think long, it commonly attains to think right ; and of " Cato" it has not been unjuftly determmed, that it is rather a poem in dialogue than a Drama, rather a fucceffion of juft fentiments in elegant language, than a reprefentation of natural affections, or... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - Страниц: 640
...failure as a tragedy-writer. In his criticism of Addison's Cato he says : — ' Of Cato it has been not unjustly determined, that it is rather a poem in dialogue...rather a succession of just sentiments in elegant When Aetat.40.] Like the Monument' 231 When asked how he felt upon the ill success of his tragedy,... | |
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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.... 
