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AWM.745.019
12-18 Apr 1745:11, 12 (1319)
[In 2-column essay entitled "The Folly of Passion Expos'd"
the following references to Shakespeare:]
I never read that inimitable scene between Brutus and
Cassius, in the fourth act of Shakespeare's tragady of
Julius Caesar, but I am surprised to see what a thorough
insight that great poet had into all the passions of the
human mind. Cassius (of a fiery temper) works up by
degrees, his collegue Brutus, whose natural disposition was
mild and cool, into some warmth, but towards the close of
the scene he cools again, and having quite recovered the
serenity of his mind, he says to him,
Oh, Cassius, thou art yoaked with a lamb
That carries anger, as the flint bears fire,
Which much enforc'd, may shew a hasty spark,
But streight is cool again.
. . . [11 more lines from Shakespeare, then more essay.]
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