warn you to be perpetually on your guard, lest your good resolutions should still be sacrificed to unfortunate impulses, and the fair promise of your life be torn away by the all-powerful, though perhaps temporary, blasts of temper and passion. THE END. TO MRS. TRENCH. THE following Play, in which the interest chiefly depends upon a struggle between a high and honourable sentiment and the domestic feelings, you must allow me to dedicate to you. Gallantry might have pointed out a more distant object than a sister, but it is the best purpose of a dedication to offer a testimony of esteem and affection, nor is there any one to whom these sentiments so immediately direct me as to you, who have sanctioned and confirmed them by the experience of my whole life. JAMES MASON. |
