life

, was

drawn

from

observations

of mine also, and I meant to have gone on with the story, but on

second

thoughts, I thought myself

two centuries

at least too late for the subject; which, though admitting of very powerful feeling and description, yet is not adapted for this age, at least this country, though the finest works of the Greeks, one of Schiller's and Alfieri's in modern times, besides several of our