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Salilbury, his fecretarj and companion, then defcribes 

 him belt, when he checks his impetuofity, and chides 

 his too cauftic humour ; and doe« not give offence 



" In a word, he had blemiflies, and he had many 

 virtues : His caufe which ta us wears few marks of 

 chrif ian truth, to him was facred, and he defended it 

 fincerely; l»ut if many catholics have praifed him im- 

 moderately, why fhall proteftants be unjuft ? True it is, 



Men's evil manners live in brafs ; their virtues 



We write in water." 



Critical Remarks on the Othello of Shahefpear, concluded 



from pctge 145. 

 It has been obferved of Shakefpear, that he has not often 

 exhibited the delicacy ot female character ; and this has 

 beenfufficiently apologized tor, from the uncivilized age 

 in which he lived ; and women never appearing upon the 

 ftage in hii. time, might have made him lels ftudious 

 in this department of the drama. Indeed, when we con- 

 iider his Itrength of mtnd, his imagination, which de- 

 lighted in whatever w;is bold and daring, we would al- 

 moH think it impofTible that he could enter into all 

 the foftnefs and refinement of fove : but in fpite of all 

 thefedifadvantages, he has fhewn, that in whatever view 

 he choofed to behold human nature, he would perform, 

 it fuperior to any other. For no where in the writings 

 of Shakefpear, or any where elfe, have we found the 

 female charadler drawn with lo much tendernefs and 

 beauty as in that of Defdemona. The gentlenefs with 

 which the behaves to all with whom fhe converfes, the 

 purity, the modefty, the warmth of her love, her re- 

 signation in the deepett diijrefs, together with her per- 

 icnal accomplifhrnents, attraft our highefl regard : but 

 that wnich chiefly diftinguifhes her, is that exquilite 

 fenfibility of imagination, which interefted her fo much 

 in the dangers of Othello's youthful adventures, a paf- 

 iion natural enough indeed, though it is not everv one 



