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HE amuements which this place afford are generally uppoed the mot rational, and are really o to a cultivated mind; yet one that is not quite formed may learn affectation at the theatre. Many of our admired tragedies are too full of declamation, and a fale diplay of the paions. A heroine is often made to grieve ten or twenty years, and yet the unabated orrow has not given her cheeks a pallid hue; he till inpires the mot violent paion in every beholder, and her own yields not to time. The prominent features of a paion are eaily copied,