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| | Of tragedy by David Hume |
 | | It is thus the fiction of tragedy softens the passion by an infusion of a new feeling, not merely by weakening or diminishing the sorrow. |
 | | He himself, as well as the reader of that age, were too deeply concerned in the events, and felt a pain from subjects which an historian and a reader of another age would regard as the most pathetic and interesting, and, by consequence, the most agreeable. |
 | | Such is that action represented in "The Ambitious Stepmother", here a venerable old man, raised to the height of fury and despair, rushes against a pillar, and striking his head upon it besmears it all over with mingled brains and gore. |
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