CHIEFLY INTENDED FOR YOUNG PERSONS: THE SUBJECTS TAKEN FROM THE BIBLE. TO WHICH IS ADDED, SENSIBILITY, A POE M. All the Books of the BIBLE are either most admirable COWLEY. THE DUCHESS OF BEAUFORT; THESE SACRED DRAMAS ARE, WITH THE MOST PERFECT RESPECT, INSCRIBED: AS, AMONG THE MANY AMIABLE AND DISTINGUISHED QUALITIES WHICH ADORN HER MIND, AND ADD LUSTRE TO HER RANK, HER EXCELLENCE IN THE MATERNAL CHARACTER GIVES A PECULIAR PROPRIETY TO HER PROTECTION OF THIS LITTLE WORK; WRITTEN WITH AN HUMBLE WISH TO PROMOTE THE LOVE OF PIETY AND VIRTUE IN YOUNG PERSONS; BY HER GRACE'S MOST OBEDIENT, MOST OBLIGED, AND MOST HUMBLE SERVANT, H. MORE. [ ] ADVERTISEMENT. I AM as ready as the most rigid Critic, to confefs, that nothing can be more fimple and inartificial than the plans of the following Dramas. In the conftruction of them I have feldom ventured to introduce any perfons of my own creation: Still lefs did * I imagine myself at liberty to invent circumstances. I reflected, with awe, that the place whereon I stood was holy ground. All the latitude I permitted myself, was, to * Never, indeed, except in DANIEL, and that of neceffity; as the Bible furnishes no more than two perfons, Daniel and Darius; and these were not fufficient to carry on the bufinefs of the Piece. |