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Show 16 TH by the han LIF of nature O are awake within us and that our inward frame is preserved in du balance and regular order Nog is this all; by a just picture of forme times, and the characters of men, who figure on the stage of the world, our knowledge i greatly enlarged From a good tragedy me resort to the page of history, and there acquir a stoc of information wise escape their notice which migh ofhcr Garrick saw thes consequences in their true light He consi Voltarr dered tragedy as a mirror held up, in whic eare an the frequenters of the theatre might see passin before them the various transactions of ancien times For that reason he was ever anxious as we have seen in the preceding narrative, t brin forwar authors th production o our bes Dramatic poetry, in his opinibn, wa a and M n Mah |
