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M. CROU SA Z, 3 – 4 7 2

Member of the Royal Academies of
Sciences at Paris and Bourdeaux; and Pro-
feffor of Philofophy and .Mathematics at
Laufanne.

LONDON:

Printed for A. DODD, at the Peacock, without
Temple-Bar. M.DCC.XXXIX.

Soth. 8690

English?

May 21

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PREFACE.

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DO not remember that ever I experienc'd the Power of Poetry fo ftrongly as in Mr Pope's Essay. What Author is

there who is not loft in a Tranflation? And what Poet who is not mifreprefented in Profe? If any are to be excepted, Mr Popeis one of the first. We find in him one of the most judicious Remarks in Horace exactly verify'd.

"IT is not enough to conftitute a Poem; "that the Verfes be composed of certain "Words in Number and Meafure, if, when

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you difplace them, the Expreffions are re

duced to mere Profe. But change the Si "tuation and Order of thefe Words as much · as you please, there will always remain 56. a certain noble and fublime Air, that fill? retains the Rapture of Poetry"

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