"The Desire of it stirs up very uneasy Motions in the Mind, and is rather inflamed than satisfied by the Presence of the Thing desired."
Spectator, No. 256
See Donald Bond's edition: <u>The Spectator</u>, 3 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965), ii, 493-498.
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Reading in <u>Cato: A Tragedy and Selected Essays</u>, ed. by Christine Dunn Henderson and Mark E. Yellin, with a Foreword by Forrest McDonald (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2004).