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Amatic poems[the following Tragedy, and the trifle called a mask, were written fix the stage. But as a former play - the oath OF office - had been productive to the writer of nothing but disappointment and bitterness of spirit, be abandoned his purpose of bringing them before the public in that way, and adopted, instead, the medium of the press. This was not done, however, without considerable regret; for he was well aware of the disadvantage to which they were thereby sub jected, as the parts that would be most effective in representation.
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