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60 Every Man that understandeth Latin doth not understand either Greatness or Delicacy of Thought, Strength, or Beauty of Expression; and some critical Heads, such absolute Masters are they of their Passions, can bear the Raptures and Flights of Poets with a wonderful Command of Temper, and be no more affected with the most moving Strains, than if they were reading the heaviest Piece of their own Composing. They have no Notion of Life and Fire in Fancy and in Words, and any Thing that is just in Grammar and in Measure, provided always the Words be placed Rh