As to the tragic paintings by which Mr. Burke has outraged his own imagination, and seeks to work upon that of his readers, they are very well . . .

calculated for theatrical representation, where facts are manufactured for the sake of show, and accommodated to produce,through the weakness of sympathy, a weeping effect. But Mr. Burke should recollect that he is writing History, and not Plays; and that his reader will expect truth, and not the spouting rant of high-toned exclamation.

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