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Excerpt from Series of Plays, Vol. 1: In Which It Is Attempted to Delineate the Stronger Passions of the Mind: Each Passion Being the Subject of a Tragedy and a Comedy
Before I explain the plan of this work, I must make a demand upon the patience of my reader, whilst I endeavour to communicate to him those ideas regarding human nature, as they in some degree affect almost every species of 'moral writ ings, but particularly the Dramatick, that induced the to attempt it; and, as far as my judgment en abled me to apply them, has directed me in the execution of it.
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