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STRENGTH.
A good constitution is a material point:—there is no profession more fatiguing. Irritable nerves, weak lungs, or delicate constitutions, cannot long sustain the weight of tragic characters.
I have found, in the course of my time, a number of young authors and fine ladies who have thought that nothing was more easy than to perform Mahomet, Merope, &c.; that the author had done all that was necessary; that to learn the parts, and to leave the rest to Nature, was all the actor had to do. Nature!—how many use this word
