Southern. Thomas Southerne (1660/1–1746), who wrote Oroonoko, or the Royal Slave (1696).
Lillo. George Lillo (1693–1739), Fatal Curiosity, 1737.
Moore. Edward Moore (1712–1757), The Gamester, 1753.
In one of his Letters. See the letter dated September, 1737.
Sent us weeping. Richard II. V. 1.
Rise sadder. Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner.
Douglas. A tragedy by John Home (1724–1808), first played at Edinburgh in 1756.
[360]. Decorum is the principal thing. ‘What Decorum is, which is the grand Master-piece to observe.’ Milton on Education, Works, 1738, I. p. 140.
Aristotle’s definition of tragedy. In the Poetics.
Lovers’ Vows. Mrs. Inchbald’s adaptation from Kotzebue, 1800.