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Excerpt from Essays on Some of Shakespeare's Dramatic Characters: To Which Is Added, an Essay on the Faults of Shakespeare
Moralists of all ages have recommended Poetry as an art no lefs infiru�tive than amufing; tending at once to improve the heart, and entertain the fancy. The ge nuine and original Poet, peculiarly favoured by nature, arid intimately acquainted with the confiitution of the human mind, not by a long train of metaphyfical dedu�tions, but, as it were, by immediate intuition, difplays the workings of every affection, dete�ts the origin of every pallion, traces its progrefs, and delineates its character. Thus, he teaches us to know ourfelves, infpires us with mag nanimous fentiments, animates our love of virtue, and confirms our hatred of vice. Moved by his {triking pi�l'ures of the in?a bility of human enjoyments, we moderate the vehemence of our defires, fortify our minds, and are enabled to fufiain adverfity.
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