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...dispute is limited to dramatic poetry, when Lisideius* defines a play to be : A just and lively image of human nature, representing its passions and humours,...subject, for the delight and instruction of mankind." I have room only for his admirable characters of our principal dramatists. * The characters in this...

...limited to dramatic poetry, when Lisideius* defines a play to be : • - A just'and lively image of human nature, representing its passions and humours,...fortune to which it is subject, for the delight and in- * st ruction of mankind." , * I have room only for his admirable characters of our principal dramatists....

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