...objectionable in each of these styles, without the compensations which naturally belonged to either; — and Miss Baillie, we think, has set the example of plays...certainly without their spirit, grace, or animation. This then, we think, is the chief defect in the plays of Miss Baillie ; — and there are none of her...

...of these styles, without the compensations which naturally belonged to either; — and Miss Baillic, we think, has set the example of plays as poor in...certainly without their spirit, grace, or animation. This then, we think, is the chief defect in the plays of Miss Baillie ; — and there are none of her...

...which naturally belonged to either: — and Miss Baillie, we think, has set the example of playeras poor in incident and character, and as sluggish in...tragedies, — and certainly without their spirit, grace, or'animalion. ' This, then, we think, is the chief defect in the plays of Miss Baillio; — and there...

...Edinburgh just two years before) was scathing: "It was reserved for a writer of no ordinary talents ... to set the example of plays as poor in incident and character,...their pace, as any that languish on the Continental stage."37 His critique makes no mention whatever of Baillie's preface, partly, one suspects, because...

...publication of Baillie's 3rd volume of plays in 1812, Francis Jeffrey wrote in the Edinburgh Review. "Miss Baillie, we think, has set the example of plays...their grandeur, their elegance, or their interest" (Edinburgh Review, February 1812, vol. 19: 265-66). 41. The second edition of Sotheby's translation...