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LETTER

CXIII. On the fame

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CXIV. On a noble Lord, who made profeffions

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of fervice CXV. A character of their common friend,— bis amusements in his garden, and folicitude for the projected edition 354

CXVI. Defires his friend to correct the Elay on Homer.

356 CXVII. Thanks him for having done it 357 CXVIII. Account of the publication of the DUN

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CXIX. Of his ill ftate of health.

of his works.

the clergy.

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forefight of its confequences

CXXI. On the fame

The laft Will of Mr. Pope

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LETTERS

TO AND FROM

Dr. JONATHAN SWIFT, &c.

From the Year 1714 to 1737.

LETTER I.

Mr. POPE to Dr. SWIFT.

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June 18, 1714.

HATEVER Apologies it might become me to make at any other time for writing to you, I fhall ufe none now, to a man who has owned himself as fplenetic as a Cat in the Country. In that circumftance, I know by experience a letter is a very useful, as well as amufing thing: If you are too bufied in ftate affairs to read it, yet you may find entertainment in folding it into divers figures, either doubling it into a pyramidical, or twisting it into a ferpentine form: or, if your difpofition

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