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English Literature having found thefe many years ago, fo much lovers in Germany and the adjacent countries, I doubt not, the defign i have form'd to print neat Pocket Editions bering, ed. Hall, ban

of the English Claffical Writers, will be very ac bernet ceptable to the learned world. I thought beft, to begin my Tafk with the Edition of Mr. POPE'S Works, this Author being fo univerfally efteemed by all thofe that have any taste of Poetry or Learning.

All care poffible has been taken to have this Edition correct as well, as neat, and, I hope, with fo good a fuccefs, that the Reader will find but very few faults, that are of any Confequence.

This Edition is more complet as the Englifh Pocket Editions, for it is printed on

Mr. WARBURTON'S Edition in Great Octavo, and contains all his Notes and Com mentaries. Yet in the English little Editions the Commentaries are left out.

If this firft Commencement fhould not wholly displease to the lovers of English Literature. The Editions of the Works of MILTON, ADDISON, THOMPSONS SHAKESPEARE, YOUNG, PRIOR AKENSIDE, and other claffical Englifl Writers fhall follow immediatly the Edition of Mr. POPE'S Works, and fhall be printed with the fame neatnefs and correctnefs, adorned too with curious cuts done by the beft hands. Berlin, May 3th. 1762.

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R. POPE, in his laft illness, amufed himself, amidft the care of his higher concerns, in preparing a corrected and complete Edition of his Writings; and, with his ufual delicacy, was even folicitous to prevent any fhare of the offence they might occafion, from falling on the Friend whom he had engaged to give them to the Public.

"I own the late encroachments upon my con"ftitution make me willing to fee the end of all "further care about me or my works. I would rest "for the one in a full refignation of my being to be difpofed of by the Father of all Mercy; and

for the other (though indeed a trifle, yet a trifle

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may be fome example) I would commit them to "the candor of a fenfible and reflecting judge, " rather than to the malice of every fhort-fighted "and malevolent critic, or inadvertent and cenfo"rious Reader. And no hand can fet them in fo ་ good a light, &c." Let. cxx. to Mr. W.

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"I also give and bequeath to the faid Mr. "Warburton, the property of all fuch of my Works "already printed as he hath written or fhall write "Commentaries or Notes upon, and which I have VOL. I.