FOUNDED ON

THE TRAGEDIES

OF

SHAKSPEARE, MASSINGER, SHIRLEY, ROWE, MURPHY,

LILLO, AND MOORE,

AND ON

THE COMEDIES

OF

STEELE, FARQUHAR, CUMBERLAND, BICKERSTAFF GOLDSMITH, AND MRS. COWLEY.

BY MISS MACAULEY.

EMBELLISHED WITH 135 ENGRAVINGS.

Good unexpected-evil unforeseen

Appear by turns, as Fortune shifts the scene.
Some, raised aloft, come tumbling down amain:
Some fall so hard-they bound and rise again.
Lansdown.

BOSTON:

PRINTED & PUBLISHED BY CHARLES GAYLORD