EVER Y MAN IN HIS HUMOUR.
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t— " 1 1 * I TAKE my post, and commence my operations, *under the banners of Old Ben, one of the mightymasters and fathers of the British drama, whose co-medy above-named 1 select and plant in the very frontof my undertaking, not because I vainly think myselfsufficient to be his reviewer, but because I ain desirou sto pay my first homage to the wearer of that learnedsock, which, like the glass-slipper in the fairy tale,has never fitted any foot but his. The relics of his muse, though not always pre-eminent in point of genius, 'are yet so venerable onthe score of erudition, so rich in classic lore, sostrongly tinctured with the spirit of the Greek drama-tists, including even those scattered fragments whichthe grammarians have rescued from the wreck of ages,that, to any one who is addicted to those studies, it isa fund of entertaining research to track him in thesnow of those ancient worthies, who to us are originals,though they, perhaps, followed in a path whichothers had struck out before them. e 2
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