These torments "On the purest spirits prey, As on entrails, joints, and limbs, With answerable pains, but more intense." What a noble thing is the soul, in its strengths and in its weaknesses! Who would be less weak than Calantha?
Who can be so strong?
The expression of this transcendent scene almost bears us in imagination to Calvary and the Cross; and we seem to perceive some analogy between the scenical suffering which we are here contemplating and the real agonies of that final completion to which we dare no more than hint a reference.

Ford was of the first order of poets.

He sought for sublimity, not by parcels, in metaphors or visible images, but directly where she has her full residence, in the heart of man; in the actions and sufferings of the greatest minds.
There is a grandeur of the soul, above mountains, seas, and the elements.

Even in the poor perverted reason of Giovanni and Annabella, in the play[1] which stands at the head of the modern collection of the works of this author, we discern traces of that fiery particle, which, in the irregular starting from out the road of beaten action, discovers something of a right line even in obliquity, and shows hints of an improvable greatness in the lowest descents and degradations of our nature.
[Footnote: "'Tis Pity she's a Whore."] * * * * * FULKE GREVILLE, LORD BROOKE.
_Alaham, Mustapha_ .-- The two tragedies of Lord Brooke, printed among his poems, might with more propriety have been termed political treatises than plays.

Their author has strangely contrived to make passion, character, and interest, of the highest order, subservient to the expression of state dogmas and mysteries.