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to carry off from her parents house, to accompany their flight. To the accomplishment of this design, they had bound themselves by the most tremendous oaths; but the conspiracy was discovered by an accident, and its execution prevented[1]."

IF the Translator of The Robbers were not convinced that this anecdote, of which perhaps there has been some slight foundation in truth, has been very greatly exaggerated, and indeed altogether misrepresented, he would acknowledge himself to stand in need of a strong apology for introducing this piece to the knowledge of his countrymen: For who could justify himself to his own mind for disseminating and even recommending that composition, which has shown itself, by its effects, to be of the most dangerous tendency?—But

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  1. ↑ Account of the German Theatre. Transactions of Royal Society of Edinburgh.
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