Lives of the English Poets: Addison, Savage [and] SwiftCassell, Limited, 1901 - 192 pages |
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Page 11
... 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 considered 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 considered as ...
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... Cato came upon the stage , was the grand climacteric of Addison's reputation . Upon the death of Cato he had , as is said , planned a tragedy in the time of his travels , and had for several years the four first acts finished , which ...
... Cato came upon the stage , was the grand climacteric of Addison's reputation . Upon the death of Cato he had , as is said , planned a tragedy in the time of his travels , and had for several years the four first acts finished , which ...
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... Cato was made public by any change of the author's purpose ; for Dennis charged him with raising prejudices in his own favour by false positions of preparatory criticism , and with poisoning the town by contradicting in the Spectator ...
... Cato was made public by any change of the author's purpose ; for Dennis charged him with raising prejudices in his own favour by false positions of preparatory criticism , and with poisoning the town by contradicting in the Spectator ...
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... 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 called ...
... 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 called ...
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... Cato had yet other honours . It was censured as a party - play by a scholar of Oxford ; and defended in a favourable examination by Dr. Sewel . It was translated by Salvini into Italian , and acted at Florence ; and by the Jesuits of St ...
... Cato had yet other honours . It was censured as a party - play by a scholar of Oxford ; and defended in a favourable examination by Dr. Sewel . It was translated by Salvini into Italian , and acted at Florence ; and by the Jesuits of St ...
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