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LETTER XIX.
ON
COMEDY.
I AM ſurpriz'd that the judicious and ingenious Mr. de Muralt, who has publiſh'd ſome Letters on the Engliſh and French Nations, ſhould have confin'd himſelf, in treating of Comedy, merely to cenſure Shadwell the comic Writer. This Author was had in pretty great Contempt in Mr. de Muralt's Time, and was not the Poet of the polite Part of the Nation. His dramatic Pieces which pleas'd ſome Time in acting, were deſpis'd by all Perſons of Taſte
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