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 120by Samuel Johnson - 1820Full view - About this book
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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