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Show The Profanenel -In Ewarspides's Buccha, Pmthem.is?fiufl‘d; in piece for ufing Bacehns with Difrefpe& And the Chorus obferves that God rieve fails to punith Impiety, and Comtemp of Religion. = Polyphemms blufters Athe iftically, and pretends to be as great Fupirer : Butthen his Eye is burnt out the fifth A& And the Choras i Hevs clide affitm it next to Madnef nc')tf;'( Worlhip the Gods. I grant he has forii profane Paffages ftand uncorretted; 'aii what wonder is it to fee a Pagan Mifc 1y ? Seaeca, as he was inferiour 'in Judg ment to the Greeks, {oheis more frequeén and uncautious, in his Flights of extraya gance. - His Hero'sand Heroines, are e ceflively bold with the Superior Being They rave to Diftraétion, and he do not. often call them to an 'account for "Tistrue, Ajax Oilewsismade an Exampl for Blafpheming ina Storm." He is firff ftruck with Thunder," and then ‘carrie t the Bottom : The Modern Poets procee upon the Liberties of Seneca. Their Mad me ar very feldo reckon'd 'with They are Profane without Cenfure, ‘an defie the Living' God with fuccefs." ‘Nay in'fome refpect they exceed even Semen himfelf:' ' He flies out only under Impa tience'; andnever falls into thefe Fits with out Torture; and hard Ufage FINIRE 'But th Englif i |