graceful fpeakers in either houfe mod in 
the houfe of Lords j but many more in both, 
who would have difgraced a debating fociety 
in the City. Shall we then feek thefe mo- 
dels at the Bar? I fear, at the Bar, there 
is not much grace to be found: yet there 
are, who both fpeak and aft like gentlemen. 
The pulpit?-*- Alas! the orators from the 
pulpit, have, in this kingdom, long fince, 
refigned 0$/0, the moft powerful inftrument 
of Rhetoric, to St. Crifpin and his difciples. 
The Stage, then, is our dernier e refort; and 
a miferable refort it is ! There are not, in 
general, a more I will not fay gracelefs* 
you would call it a pun; but, I will fay, a 
more aukwttrd fraternity of gentlemen , any 
where to be found. If, however, you wifh 
to form a juft idea of all the beauty arifing 
from attitude and from motion, (particu- 
larly of the arms,) of which the human body 
is capable, you will fee it not to imitate 
in the perfon of an Opera Dancer. 
Hamlet's inftruclion to a fet of {trolling 
players, will illuflrate what I have written. 
f Speak the fpeech, I pray you, as I pro- 
nounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue: 
but if you mouth it, as many of our Players 
do, I had as lieve the Town-cryer had fpoke 
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