THE artificial edy, or edy of manners, is quite extin our stage. greve and Farquhar show their heads on seven years only, to be exploded and put down instantly. The times ot bear them. Is it for a few wild speeches, an occasional lise of dialogue? I think not altogether. The business of their dramatic characters will not stand the moral test. We screw every thing up to that. Idle gallantry in a fi, a dream, the passing pageant of an evening, startles us in the same way as the alarming indications of profliga a son or ward in real life should startle a parent uardian. We have no such middle emotions as dramatiterests left. We see a stage libertine playing his loose pranks of two hours duration, and of no after sequence, with the severe eyes whispect real vices with their bearings upon two worlds. We are spectators to a plot or intrigue (not reducible in life to the point of strict morality) and take it all for truth. We substitute a real for a dramatic p……（内容加载失败！）
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