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Excerpt from The Works of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland, With Prefaces Biographical and Critical, Vol. 3: Containing Dryden, Smyth, Duke, King, Sprat, Halifax
Thus ancient wit, in modem numbers taught, Wanting the warmth with which its author wrote, is a dead image, and a fenfelefs draught.
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