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Letter L. to EUPHRONIUS:

Upon good fenfe,

Letter LI. to PALEMON:

The author's morning reflections,

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Letter LII. to EUPHRONIUS: Some paffages in Mr. Pope's translation of the Iliad, compared with the verfions of Denham, Dryden, Congreve, and Tickel,

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Letter LIV. to PHIDIPPUS:

Letter LIII, to ORONTES: Reflections upon seeing Mr. Pope's house at Binfield,

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The character of Cleanthes,

Letter LV. to EUPHRONIUS; Concerning weariness of life,

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Letter LVI. to TIMOCLEA: With a fable, in the style of Spenser,

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Letter LVII. to CLYTANDER: Concerning the use of the antient mythology in modern poetry,

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Letter

Letter LVIII. to EUPHRONIUS: Occafioned by the fudden death of a friend,

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Letter LIX. to HORTENSIUS:

On the delicacy of every author of genius, with refpect to his own performances, 307

Letter LX. to PALEMON:

An account of the author's happiness in his re

tirement,

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Letter LXI. to EUPHRONIUS:

Reflections upon ftyle,

Letter LXII. to ORONTES:

The character of Timoclea,

Letter LXIV. to PHILOTES:

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Letter LXIII. to the fame:

Concerning the art of verbal criticism; a Specimen of it applied to an epigram of

Swift,

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From Tunbridge,

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Letter LXV. to ORONTES:

Concerning delicacy in relieving the diftreffed,

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LETTER I.

To CLYTANDER.

Sept. 1739.

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ENTIRELY approve of your defign: but whilst I rejoice in the hope of feeing Enthufiafm thus fuccessfully attacked in her strongest and most formidable holds, I would claim your mercy for her in another quarter; and after having expelled her from her religious dominions, let me intreat you to leave her in the undifturbed enjoyment of her civil poffeffions. To own the truth, I look upon enthusiasm in all other points, but that of religion,

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