UPON САТО, A TRAGEDY. By Mr. ADDISON. In a Letter to *** CUNCTA Terrarum Subacta, Præter atrocem Animum CATONIS. Hor. LONDON: Printed for A. BALDWIN in Warwick-Lane. M. DCC. XIII. UPON САТО, A TRAGEDY. By Mr. ADDISON. In a Letter to *** CUNCTA Terrarum Subacta, Prater atrocem Animum CATONIS. Hor. LONDON: Printed for A. BALDWIN in Warwick-Lane. M. DCC. XIII. A L K K K K ALALALALAN SIR, M J V LV LVMMA London, April 25, 1713. Here fend you the Tragedy of CATO, which had rais'd the Expectation of the Town to a great Height, and now has juftly fatisfy'd it, to the Play I will leave you for Conviction but fince you defir'd fome Obfervations from me, which you were pleas'd to think would make the Reading more agreeable and ufeful to you, I fhall give you fome with the fame Freedom you requested them. no stor on off In the first place I fhall prefent to you a general Idea of the main Character of CATO, that you may the better obferve with what fuftnefs and Propriety his Character with all his Sentiments is preferv'd to the taft. roten disse at The next Head that I propofe is, to point out to you how juftly all the other Characters are diftinguifh'd from each other, and made fubfervient to the Conduct of the whole. And for a Conclufion, I will endeavour to hint at fome extraordinary Beauties, and fhow how exactly they are conformable, not only to the true Spirit of Poetry, but the beft Rules of Criticifm." Homw food, broGel SAJ IN In order to form a general Idea of CATO, you must have a View of the Scene of Affairs in which he acted, an Age full of Vice and Corruption, debauch'd from their old ge |