A letter to Mr. David Hume, on the tragedy of Douglas: its analysis: and the charge against Mr. Garrick

"Had the tragedy of Douglas been ushered into the world as the promise of a dramatic genius, as such it ought to have been received with applause; but its having been forced upon us authoritatively, in competition with all antiquity and the moderns, two obvious effects were produced in the minds of men; to wit, curiosity was excited in some, jealousy provoked in others. I am sorry to inform you, Sir, that in consequence, your national judgment has been greatly run upon here, and your critical stocks reduced almost to bankruptcy.
This is an edition of a classical book first published in the eighteenth century.