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 out on a viit to ome very dear friends in Ireland, whom I had not een for a long time. During my tay there, I was not a little pleaed to learn from every quarter that my work had not been diapproved of by the publick; and on my return to England lat ummer was till more highly gratified by your warm, and I fear too partial, approbation of my labours; by that of Mr. Burke, whoe mind is of uch a grap as to embrace at once the greatet and the minutet objects, and who, in the midt of his numerous and important avocations, has always found time for the calmer puruits of philoophy and polite literature; by that of the mot amiable and judicious friend whom we and the publick have lately had the irreparable misfortune to loe, Sir Johua Reynolds; of that excellent critick and profound cholar, Dr. Joeph Warton; and of many others, whoe encomiums would tamp a value on any literary performance. When I mention thee respected names, let me helter myelf under the example of the great poet who preceded, me in this undertaking:

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