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Excerpt from Old Plays; Being a Continuation of Dodsley's Collection, Vol. 1 of 6: With Notes, Critical and Explanatory
While the dramatic writers of other nations, {nodelling themselves on excellence that had received the applauding testimony of ages, sunk into cold formality, tricked up in stately diction and wordy sentiment, the vigorous and unrestrained genius of our own, opened a rich and unexplored mine in the depths of human passion and human feeling the heart was the subject of their examination, and its strange and inward workings the ma chinery which they delighted to employ: they removed the film that obscures our nature, and penetrated at once into the secret recesses of the bosom thus intimate with the springs of action, they never laboured to depict the pro gress of the passion; they struck at once the chord which vibrated to the heart, and left the rest to imagination and feeling. They were phi losophers, too, and that of the highest order: philosophy was with them what Milton de scribes it.
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