By Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
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For instance, he says to his English friend "Your poets had a oustom to which even Addison himself submitted; for· custom is aa mighty 88 reason or law. This unreasonable custom was that every act must be concluded by verses that are in quite another style from the rest of the play, and also these verses must of necessity contain a comparison. Phredra before her exit, compares herself poetically to a stag, Oato to a rock, and Cleopatra to ohildren who weep themselves to sleep. The translator of , Zaire' is the first who has ventured to maintain the laws of nature against such an abnormal taste.
Is that in accordance with hIS dignity? Does it rhyme with his character? Why does he not urge Zaire to explain herself? Why does he not follow her into the seraglio? " But my good Duim, if Zaire had explained herself clearly, whenoo should the other acts have come? Would not the whole tragedy have been destroyed? Quite so, the second scene of the third act is absurd. Orosman again comes to Zaire and Zaire again departs without the least explanation, and. Orosman, good soul (" dien goeden hals") consoles himself again by a monologue.
Livre; his school-wit, his Mazures are therefore more chilly than ridiculous. But notwithstanding this-and this is all I wanted to sayhis merry plays are not so deficient in the truly comic element as an over-delicate taste thinks them. '1'here are soones in them that make us laugh most heartily, that alone should secure to him no mean rank among the comic writers. . . On the sixth evening was performed 'Semiramis,' by M. de Voltaire. '1'his tragedy was first brought out on the French stage in 1748, was greatly applauded, and in a measure formed VOL.