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Excerpt from The Works of the English Poets, With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Vol. 47: Containing the Third Volume of Pope
I perceived, that molt of thefe authors had been (doubtlefs very wifely) the firll aggre?'ors. They had tried, .till they were weary, what was to be got by railing at each other: nobody was either concerned or furprifed, if this or that fcribbler was proved a dance. But every one was curious to read what could be faid to prove Mr. Pope one, and was ready to pay fomething for fach a difco Very: a firatagem which would they fairly own, it might not only reconcile them to me, but fcreen them from the refentment of their lawful fuperiors, whom they daily abafe, only (as I cha rltably hope} to get that by them, which they cannot get from them.
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