In monosyllables his thunders roll,
He, she, it, and, we, ye, they, fright the soul.
was
The Tragedy of
Phædra and Hippolitus
, acted without success in 1707, was the one play written by Mr. Edmund Smith, a merchant's son who had been educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford, and who had ended a dissolute life at the age of 42 (in 1710), very shortly before this paper was written. Addison's regard for the play is warmed by friendship for the unhappy writer. He had, indeed, written the
Prologue