They are of another jurisdiction.

But upon the common and received opinion, the author (or authors) have engrafted strong fancy.

There is something frightfully earnest in her invocations to the Familiar.
* * * * * CYRIL TOURNEUR.
_The Revenger's Tragedy_ .-- The reality and life of the dialogue, in which Vindici and Hippolito first tempt their mother, and then threaten her with death for consenting to the dishonor of their sister, passes any scenical illusion I ever felt.

I never read it but my ears tingle, and I feel a hot blush overspread my cheeks, as if I were presently about to proclaim such malefactions of myself, as the brothers here rebuke in their unnatural parent, in words more keen and dagger-like than those which Hamlet speaks to his mother.

Such power has the passion of shame truly personated, not only to strike guilty creatures unto the soul, but to "appall" even those that are "free." * * * * * JOHN WEBSTER.
_The Duchess of Malfy_ .-- All the several parts of the dreadful apparatus with which the death of the Duchess is ushered in, the waxen images which counterfeit death, the wild masque of madmen, the tomb-maker, the bellman, the living person's dirge, the mortification by degrees,--are not more remote from the conceptions of ordinary vengeance, than the strange character of suffering which they seem to bring upon their victim is out of the imagination of ordinary poets.
As they are not like inflictions of this life, so her language seems not of this world.