Take one of their characters, male or female (with few exceptions they are alike), and place it in a modern play, and my virtuous indignation shall rise against the profligate wretch as warmly as the Catos of the pit could desire; because in a modern play I am to judge of the right and the wrong.

Take one of their characters, male or female (with few exceptions they are alike), and place it in a modern play, and my virtuous indignation shall rise against the profligate wretch as warmly as the Catos of the pit could desire; because in a modern play I am to judge of right and wrong, and the standard of police is the measure of poetical justice.

But our passion for gain, in the present age, is so much more absorbing and soul-destroying than the passion for military glory, that we cannot expect many Catos.

Few would now give one of the Spectator's little papers about Sir Roger de Coverley for a century of Catos.

That it is not necessary as an article of food can be conclusively proved from the teaching of history, for, as a famous poet happily puts it "In ancient and heroic days, The days of Scipios and Catos, The Western world pursued its ways Triumphantly without potatoes.

And all hir ancient freedoms, tooke that course That now is practisd on you; for the Catos And all free sperritts slaine or els proscribd That durst have stir'd against him, he then sceasd The absolute rule of all.

The following is the passage: Octavius, when he did affect the Empire, And strove to tread upon the neck of Rome And all her ancient freedoms, took that course That now is practised on you; for the Catos, And all free spirits slain or else proscribed, That durst have stirred against him, he then seized The Absolute rule of all.

It is hardly possible to imagine that the spectators did not apply the "free spirits" to Raleigh, and the "Catos" to those members who were shortly after to be imprisoned on account of a memorable protest entered in the journals of the House, which Octavius, who was trying to seize the absolute rule of all, tore out with his own royal hands.

Austerity of Manners Catos's Family Life The picture, which has been handed down to us of the life of Cato the Elder, enables us in substance to perceive how, according to the ideas of the respectable burgesses of that period, the private life of the Roman should be spent.

Dancing, singing, masking, mumming, stage plays, howsoever they be heavily censured by some severe Catos, yet if opportunely and soberly used, may justly be approved.

Non cuivis contingit adire Corinthum, we may not be all gentlemen, all Catos, or Laelii, as Tully telleth us, all honourable, illustrious, and serene, all rich; but because mortal men want many things, "therefore," saith Theodoret, "hath God diversely distributed his gifts, wealth to one, skill to another, that rich men might encourage and set poor men at work, poor men might learn several trades to the common good."

" Heliodorus, a bishop, penned a love story of Theagines and Chariclea, and when some Catos of his time reprehended him for it, chose rather, saith Nicephorus, to leave his bishopric than his book.

can you bear to believe that Numa, Camillus, Fabricius, the Scipios, the Catos, that Cicero, Seneca, that Titus and the Antonini, are in the flames of Hell, the accursed objects of the divine hatred?

Our sullen Catos, whatsoe'er they say, Even while they frown, and dictate laws, obey.

"There seems to be more reason for such plurals, as the Ptolemies, Scipios, Catos: or, to instance in more modern names, the Howards, Pelhams, and Montagues."Ib., 40.

APPETITE, riding for an, i. 467, n. 2. APPIUS, in the Cato Major, iv.

CATO the Censor, iv. 79.

CICERO, Burke not like him, v. 213-4; Chesterfield likened to him, iii. 351; image of Virtue, ii. 15, n. 2, 443; quotations from Cato Major, iii.

Marcus Cato,' i. 502; 'Pretor of Mildendo,' i. 503; Johnson's conscience troubled, i. 152, 505; iv. 408; Debates not authentic, i. 118, 503-9; rapid composition, i. 504; iv.

DENMARK, Queen of, ii. 253, n. 2. DENNIS, John, criticisms on Blackmore and Cato, iv. 36, n. 4; on Cato, iii. 40, n. 2; on Shakespeare, i. 498, n. 4; Critical Works worth collecting, iii. 40; his thunder, iii. 40, n. 2. DENTON, Judge, ii. 164, n. 5.

DENMARK, Queen of, ii. 253, n. 2. DENNIS, John, criticisms on Blackmore and Cato, iv. 36, n. 4; on Cato, iii. 40, n. 2; on Shakespeare, i. 498, n. 4; Critical Works worth collecting, iii. 40; his thunder, iii. 40, n. 2. DENTON, Judge, ii. 164, n. 5.

This was the opinion and practice of the latter Cato, whom I esteem to have been the wisest and best of all the Romans.

[048] Cato being present on one occasion at the floral games, the people out of respect to him, forbore to call for the usual exposures; when informed of this he withdrew, that the spectators might not be deprived of their usual entertainment.

Why yearn for plays, to pose as Brutuses or Catos in, When you may get a garden to grow the best potatoes in? You see that at my age by Nature's shocks unharmed I am!

Assuredly, if any honest Catos there be who thus far have gone with us, no longer will they do so, but oppose us, and as resolutely as hitherto they have supported.