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very improving; and perhaps the ſtage is the only place where ridicule is uſeful.
What I have ſaid is certainly only applicable to thoſe who go to ſee the play, and not to ſhew themſelves and waſte time. The moſt inſignificant amuſement will afford inſtruction to thinking minds, and the moſt rational will be loſt on a vacant one.
Remarks on the actors are frequently very tireſome. It is a fashionable topic, and a thread-bare one; it requires great abilities, and a knowledge of nature, to be a com-
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