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AN

ESSAY

ON THE

GENIUS AND WRITINGS

OF

Ρ Ο Ρ Ε.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

By JOSEPH WARTON, D. D.

VOL. II.

THE FIFTH EDITION, CORRECTED.

To which is now added,

AN INDE X.

Satyra quidem tota nostra est : in qua primus insignem laudem adeptus est
Lucilius ; qui quosdam ita deditos sibi adhuc habet amatores, ut eum, non
ejusdem modo operis autoribus, sed omnibus poetis, præferre non dubitent.

QUINTILIAN.

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