The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
Bio: James Bramston, satirist, educated at Westminster School and Oxford, took orders and was later Vicar of Harting. His poems are The Art of Politics, in imitation of Horace, and The Man of Taste, in imitation of Alexander Pope.
