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178 While her smock goes unwash'd, and abandon'd her tresses. Thus her mind, like clear amber, condens'd by stagnation, Exhibits the dirt it imbibed in formation.

Another trenchant paragraph begins:

In the last decade of the eighteenth century, sentimentalism was flourishing in the drama as in other forms of literature. It even found praise at the hands of some satirists. For example, a journalistic piece called The Children of Apollo (1794) gave forceful expression to critical opinion which was, for the most part, based on sentimental principles. Its author praises Macklin in these terms:

On grounds of Sensibility, he praises Mrs. Inchbald:

A more important bit of favorable criticism of sentimental drama is to be found in The Pursuits of Literature. Mathias