Excerpt from Shakspeare's Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra: With Alteration, and With Additions From Dryden But Johnson cannot be fairly convicted of incongruity in the above remarks: for, it is to be recollected, that they claim a bearing upon his general tenets; and that, in his admirable Preface to Shakspeare's Plays, he has defended the Post's de parture from the Unities. The authority of his opinion pro. Duces a powerful Ally to generous Taste, when inclined to rebel against scholastick Prescription; still, although deliberately given, it makes him, he says, frighted at his own temerity.

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