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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. Nothing... "
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Page 120
by Samuel Johnson - 1820
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Representative English Dramas from Dryden to Sheridan

Frederick Tupper - English drama - 1914 - 480 pages
...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 of just sentiments in...emotion ' ; here is ' no magical power of raising fantastic terror or wild anxiety.' The events are expected without solicitude, and are remembered without...
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Representative English Dramas from Dryden to Sheridan

Frederick Tupper - English drama - 1914 - 482 pages
...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 of just sentiments in...emotion ' ; here is ' no magical power of raising fantastic terror or wild anxiety.' The events are expected without solicitude, and are remembered without...
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Representative English Dramas from Dryden to Sheridan

Frederick Tupper - English drama - 1914 - 502 pages
...determined that it is rather a poem in dialogue than a drama, rather a succession of just sentrments in elegant language than a representation of natural...assuages emotion'; here is 'no magical power of raising fantastic terror or wild anxiety.' The events are expected without solicitude, and are remembered without...
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English Drama of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century, 1642-1780

George Henry Nettleton - English drama - 1914 - 396 pages
...permits descent from the pedestal. As Doctor Johnson says, 4 'It is rather a poem in dialogue than a drama, rather a succession of just sentiments in...or of any state probable or possible in human life .... The events are expected without solicitude, and are remembered without joy or sorrow.' Despite...
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Representative English Dramas from Dryden to Sheridan

Frederick Tupper - English drama - 1914 - 490 pages
...think right; and of Cato it has not heen unjustly determined that it is rather a poem in dialogue than a drama, rather a succession of just sentiments in...representation of natural affections, or of any state prohahle or possihle in human life. Nothing here ' excites or assuages emotion ' ; here is ' no magical...
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Dr. Samuel Johnsons Stellung zu den literarischen Fragen seiner Zeit

Hans Meier - 1916 - 124 pages
...vivacious offspr,ing of observation impregnated by genius.29) Cato nennt er rather a poem in dialogue than a drama, rather a succession of just sentiments in elegant language than a representation of natural affections.30) Ein Urteil, das Johnson auch über seine eigene ,, Irene" hätte fällen können. Aus...
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Addison

William John Courthope - 1919 - 216 pages
...not been unjustly determined that it is jaiher a poem in dialogue than^a dramajjather. a-suceession' of just ^sentiments in elegant language than a representation...emotion ; ' here is ' no magical power of raising fantastic terror or wild anxiety.' The events are expected without solicitude, and are remembered without...
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Contemporary Criticisms of Dr. Samuel Johnson, His Works, and His Biographers

John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 436 pages
...right ; and of 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...or possible in human life. Nothing here excites or asswages emotion ; here is no magical power of raising phantastic terror or wild anxiety. The events...
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Three English Comedies: She Stoops to Conquer, The Rivals, The School for ...

Alban Bertram De Mille - English drama - 1924 - 552 pages
...influential in its time, Dr. Johnson made his usual sane comment: "It is rather a poem in dialogue than a drama, rather a succession of just sentiments in...or of any state probable or possible in human life. . . . The events are expected without solicitude, and are remembered without joy or sorrow." The same...
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A Dictionary of the Drama: A Guide to the Plays, Playwrights, Players, and ...

William Davenport Adams - Actors - 1904 - 646 pages
..." says Dr. Johnson, " it has not been 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 atiectiuns." '' The character of Cato," writes WJ Courthope, ' is an abstraction, round which a number...
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