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Excerpt from The British Drama, a Collection of the Most Esteemed Dramatic Productions, With Biography of the Respective Authors, Vol. 12 of 14: Containing Douglas, Gamester, Mourning Bride, Tancred and Sigismunda
IN Dedications, especially those which poets write, mankind expect to find little sentiment and less truth. A grateful ima °nation adorns its bene factor with every virtue, an? Even ?atters with sin cerity. Hence the portrait of each patron of the Muses is drawn with the same outline, and finished as a model of perfection. Instructed by the errors of others, I presume not to make the panegyric of the prince or wales, nor to extol the patronage of literature as the most shining quality of a prince. Your Royal Highness will permit me to mention one sort of patronage, which can net er be praised too much that, I mean, which extending its in?uence to the whole society, forms and excites the genius of individuals bx exalting the spirit of the state.
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