Goethe examined it attentively, and expressed his pleasure at the correctness and Dramatical conception of the design, and did not remark, or perhaps would not, that the artist was busily occupied with crayon and paper.
"Old Fritz and the New Era"
Louise Muhlbach
I humbly conceive therefore that this want of Dramatical Justice in the Tragedy of Coriolanus gave occasion for a just Alteration, and that I was oblig'd to sacrifice to that Justice Aufidius and the Tribunes, as well as Coriolanus.
"Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare"
D. Nichol Smith
Now Mr. Pope shews us his profound judgment in Dramatical passions; thinks a lady in her circumstances cannot without absurdity open a letter that seems to her as surprize, with any more preparation than the most unconcerned person alive should a common letter by the penny-post.
"The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753),Vol. V."
Theophilus Cibber