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AN

ESSAY

ON THE

GENIUS

AND

WRITING S

OF

POPE.

VOLUME THE SECOND.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR J. DODSLEY, IN PALL-MALL

M.DCC.LXXXII.

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order to account for the anachronisms that appear in this effay, it is necessary and respectful to inform the reader, that this volume was printed, as far as the 201st page, above twenty years ago. The author begs leave to add, that he flatters himself, that no obfervations in this work can be fo perversely mifinterpreted and tortured, as to make him infinuate, contrary to his opinion and inclination, that POPE was not a great poet: he only fays and thinks, he was not the greatest. He imagined his meaning would have been perceived, and his motives for compofing this effay would have been clearly known, from the paffage of Quintilian, prefixed to the first volume of it; which paffage implies, that as there were readers at Rome,

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