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218 of our Passions, his Language is so very beautiful, and all his tender Strains so very moving in the most sensible Words, that, perhaps, Your Lordship will no where meet the Passions touched with a more masterly Hand, or expressed in more lively Colours.

I have made no distinct mention of Tragedy, and the most celebrated of our Writers, that have raised the English Stage, as high as the Athenian; they have most excelled, when they formed their Plays on the Grecian Plan, or built them, at least, after the ancient Models. And where the Unities are preserved by a great Genius, and a masterly Hand, I think the Rh