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Rh Swift is Rabelais in his Senes, and frequenting the politet Company. The former indeed is not o gay as the latter, but then he poees all the Delicacy, the Jutnes, the Choice, the good Tate, in all which Particulars our giggling rural Vicar Rabelais is wanting. The poetical Numbers of Dean Swift are of a ingular and almot inimitable Tate; true Humour whether in Proe or Vere, eems to be his peculiar Talent, but whoever is deirous of undertanding him perfectly, mut viit the Iland in which he was born.

be much eaier for you to form an Idea of Mr. Pope's Works. He is in my Opinion the mot elegant, the mot correct Poet; and at the ame Time the mot harmonious (a Circumtance which redounds very much to the Honour of this Mue) that England ever gave Birth to. He has mellow'd the harh Sounds of the Englih Trumpet to the oft Accents of the Flute. His Compoitions may be eaily tranlated, becaue they are vatly clear and Rh