"Our Author, who almost every where manifests a perfect knowledge in the anatomy of the human mind, proves his science more particularly in a passage of this Scene, by shewing a property in our natures which might have escaped any common dissecter of morals; and this is, our suffering, upon true penitence and contrition, not only all reproach thrown out against us with meekness and submission, but even encouraging and augmenting the abuse, by joining in our own condemnation."
The Morality of Shakespeare's Drama Illustrated
3 entries in ECCO and ESTC (1775, 1777).<br>
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Text from <u>The Morality of Shakespeare's Drama Illustrated: By Mrs. Griffith</u>. (London: Printed for T. Cadell, 1775). &lt;<a href="http://name.umdl.umich.edu/004885264.0001.000">Link to ECCO-TCP</a>&gt;