CURSORY Suppos REMARK'S Ο Ν TRAGEDY, O N SHAKESPEAR, AND ON CERTAIN ی به وی French and Italian POETS, PRINCIPALLY TRAGEDIAN S. Nullius addictus jurare in verba magiftri. I, fuge, fed poteras tutior effe domi. HOR. MARTIAL ad lib. fuum. LONDON: Printed for W. OWEN, in Fleet-Street. M.DCC.LXXIV. الی PREFA C E. T HE following remarks have afforded fome amufement to the author in his leisure hours, and he now ventures to give them to the public, fully fenfible of the many imperfections of his work, but conscious at the fame time of the good intention with which it was compofed. For it has been his aim throughout either to remove false, or mistaken, or unjustly fevere cenfures, that have been paffed on foreign writers; or to fhew the partiality or prejudice of those, by whom our own are frequently as unjuftly venerated. The critics, perhaps, from A 3 |