American Historical and Literary Antiquities, Part 05

Nobody can more sincerely admire him where he was a man of real genius, viz., in his delineations of character and manners, or in the exquisite delicacies of his humor. But assuredly Addison, as a poet, was amongst the sons of the feeble; and between the authors .of Cato and of King Lear there was a gulf never to be bridged over.