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have not written the book for the present age, which will endure nothing but cold common sense.
Our language falls far short of the charms of the Italian, both for variety and harmony.
Surely if a comedy may be route tragedy may now and then, soberly, be indulged in a smile.
Shall the critic, Who, in self-defence, declares, that no kind ought to be excluded from comedy, give laws to Shakespeare?
Unhappy Shakespeare! hadst thou made inform his compeer, of the iconography of the palace of Copenhagen, instead of presenting as with a moral dialogue between the Prince of Denmark and the grave-digger, the illuminated pit of Paris would have been instructed a second time to adore thy talents.
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