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The SECOND EDITION, Corrected.

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FOR LIER VEY

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Satyra quidem tota noftra eft: in qua primus infignem laudem adeptus eft Lucilius; qui quofdam ita deditos fibi adhuc habet amatores, ut eum, non ejufdem modo operis autoribus, fed omnibus poetis, præferre non dubitent. QUINTILIAN.

LONDON,

PRINTED FOR R. AND J. DODSLEY, IN PALL-MALL.

MDCCLXII.

TO

THE REVEREND

DR. YOUNG,

RECTOR

Of WELWYN in HERTFORDSHIRE,

DEAR SIR,

PERMI

ERMIT me to break into your retirement, the refidence of virtue and literature, and to trouble you with a few reflections on the merits and real character of an admired author, and on other collateral fubjects of criticism, that will naturally arife in the course of such an enquiry. No love of fingularity, no affectation of paradoxical opinions, gave rife to the following work.

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