SACRED DRAMAS: CHIEFLY INTENDED FOR YOUNG PERSONS. THE SUBJECTS TAKEN FROM THE BIBLE. All the books of the Bible are either most admirable and exalted pieces of poetry, or the best materials in the world for it. COWLEY. TO HER GRACE THE DUCHESS OF BEAUFORT, THESE SACRED DRAMAS, are, with the most perfect respect, as, INSCRIBED; 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; to promote the love of piety and virtue in young persons, by Her GRACE'S most obedient, most obliged, and most humble servant, HANNAH MORE. |