In estimating this we are all subject to delusion, not improbably I am so, when it appears to me that the metaphor in the first speech of his dramatic scene is too much drawn out.

It does not pass off as rapidly as metaphors ought to do, I think, in dramatic writing.

I am well aware that our early dramatists abound with these continuities of imagery, but to me they appear laboured and unnatural, at least unsuited to that species of composition, of which action and motion are the essentials.

'While with the ashes of a light that was,' and the two following lines, are in the best style of dramatic writing.

To every opinion thus given always add, I pray you, 'in my judgment,' though I may not, to save trouble or to avoid a charge of false modesty, express it.