y -- tiable infirmities of old men, erfeited upon a stage, divert not altogeto t in part from an inner conviction t ted before us; t a likeness only is going on, and not tself. t; not to tty acts an old man, is  counterfeit, just enougo recognise,  pressing upon us ty?

    Comedians, paradoxical as it may seem, may be too natural. It e actor. Not or true told excellently in yke, and cers of a tragic cast. But ion to tage business, and ain into  produced a  effect.  of keeping  of tis. ttle link bet ate, dry, repulsive, and unsocial to all. Individually considered, ion erly. But comedy is not t ty is not required of it as to serious scenes. ty demanded to trated by t sort of trut ory. If  tittle,  it altogetears refuse to flo a suspected imposition. But teller of a mirtale itude allo e trutis tic illusion. e confess o see an audience naturalised beaken in into terest of tanders or icipation or concern o be diverted by  see t old of it; but an old fool in farce may t, as plainly as o pit, box, and gallery. inent in tragedy, an Osric, for instance, breaks in upon tempt reated. But inent of comedy, in a piece purely meant to give delig of udious man aking up  of contempt expressed (ural) roy t in tators. to make trusion comic, tor tle desert nature; , in s, be tisfaction and peevisent y must seem  on. If ruder  face of a man in earnest, and more especially if ulations in a tone ic existence of ter ( comic demands an antagonist comicality on t of ter opposed to it), and convert