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204 only Deign in this Letter, being to diplay the Genius of the Englih Poets, and therefore I hall continue in the ame View. celebrated Mr. Waller has been very much talk'd of in France, and Mr. de la Fontaine, St. Evremont and Bayle have written his Elogium, but till his Name only is known. He had much the ame Reputation in London as Voiture had in Paris, and in my Opinion deerv'd it better. Voiture was born in an Age that was jut emerging from Barbarity; an Age that was till rude and ignorant, the People of which aim'd at Wit, tho' they had not the leat Pretenions to it, and ought for Points and Conceits intead of Sentiments. Britol Stones are more eaily found than Diamonds. Voiture, born with an eay and frivolous Genius, was the firt who hone in this Aurora of French Literature. Had he come into the World after thoe great Genius's who pread uch a Glory over the Age of Lewis the Fourteenth, he would either have