CRITICAL ESSAYS ON DRAMATIC POETRY. •Berry Monfieur de VOLTAIRE. Et vos, O Lauri, carpam, et te, proxima Myrte, VIRGIL: GLASGOW, Printed for ROBERT URIE. MDCCLXI. THE CONTENTS. ESSAY on tragedy. Addreffed to Henry St. John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke. A defence of the laws of the drama, concerning the unities of action, place and time; against fecond letter to Sir Everard Falkener, ambaf- fador at Conftantinople. Taken from the Of the advantage of literature to ladies of qua- A defence of the tragedy of Mahomet, against the charge of encouraging fanaticifm. In an |