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the same time I must allow, that there are very noble Tragedies which have been framed upon the other Plan, and have ended happily; as indeed most of the good Tragedies, which have been written since the starting of the above-mentioned Criticism, have taken this Turn: As

The Mourning Bride, Tamerlane, Ulysses, Phædra

and

Hippolitus

, with most of Mr.

Dryden's

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. I must also allow, that many of

Shakespear's