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their merit arrives to full perfection, when to the nicety of the Court, they join the knowledge of Affairs, and experience in War.
A DISSERTATION ON RACINE'S TRAGEDY, CALLED
THE GRAND ALEXANDER.
THE GRAND ALEXANDER.
To Madam Bourneau.
Since I have read the Grand Alexander, the old age of Corneille does not so much alarm me; and I am not so apprehensive that the writing of Tragedies will end with him. However, I could wish, that before his death he would adopt the Author of this Piece, and, like a tender father, give a right cast to the Judgment of one, who alone deserves to be his Successor. I wish that he would give him a good taste of Antiquity, which he enjoys to so much advantage; that he would
