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copied, while the more delicate touches are overlooked. That ſtart of Cordelia's, when her father ſays, "I think that Lady is my daughter," has affected me beyond meaſure, when I could unmoved hear Caliſta deſcribe the cave in which ſhe would live "Until her tears had waſhed her guilt away."
The principal characters are too frequently made to riſe above human nature, or ſink below it; and this occaſions many falſe concluſions. The chief uſe of dramatic performances ſhould be to teach us to diſcriminate characters; but if we reſt in ſeparat-
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