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 ¬habit by the same means that many have ac- quired them who have acquired nothing else ; and because, although they are nothing when compared with more exalted qualifications, yet people of all descriptions must be conciliated in the language they have been accustomed to hear, and their feelings prepossessed by the same kind of address which wins them in ordinary life. ¬To bring the stage, therefore, in England, and indeed every where else, to its proper bear- ings, its professors must be cherished and re- spected. -Transcendant plays, though avowedly writ- ten for public exhibition, and which if confined to the closet would lose their highest lustre, are justly ranked amongst the noblest exertions of human genius ; their authors when living have been objects of universal admiration, and their fame has become immortal; — why then should not actors, without whose aids they are compa- ratively ¬