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notions, these paper bullets of the brain, neither have, nor ought to have, any power to awe us from the career of our delight in the drama of this heavenly-inspired bard. In every fine art there is an excellence that soars above the control of its ordinary laws. When the soul is captivated by beauties irreconcileable to the strict discipline of precept, Sensibility properly assumes the arbitra-
"C'est cet absurde et abominable galimatias, très-fréquent dans le divin Shakspeare, que M. Jean Home propose pour le modèle du bon goût et de l'esprit dans la tragédie." Œuvres de Voltaire. Edit, de Beaumarchais. tom. lvii. p. 230. 12mo. 1785. Elements of Criticism. By the Hon. Henry Home of Kames, vol. i. p. 383. 8vo. 8th Edit. 1807. Edinburgh.
