text:  Thus THE COMPLETE SEVERING OF NEARLY-ALLIED PERSONAGES (upon which Pope insists and which more than the immense multiplicity contemplated in a general way of the some hundred DRAMATIS PERSONAE determines essential variety; attests the constituting of every character after the manner of Nature from an indivisible SELF which at once rules it into unity and holds it unconfused with all others) is a finely-just observation of which we have not a hint from Dryden; and it carries us instantly deep into a most interesting study of comparisons