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140 and contains truths, which, although they have been so often ex- pressed, are not like to find so large reception, as to dispense with new and manifold utterance.

The speech of Vane is nobly rendered.

The conversations of the populace are tolerably well done. Only the greatest succeed in these; nobody except Goethe in modern times. Here they give, not the character of the people, but the spirit of the time, playing in relation to the main action the part of chorus.