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236 of State, who had the happy Talent of Speaking without Premeditation in the Parliament-houe with as much Purity as Dean Swift writ in his Cloet, and who would have been the Ornament and Protector of that Academy. Thoe only wou'd have been choen Members of it, whoe Works will lat as long as the Englih Tongue, uch as Dean Swift, Mr. Prior, whom we aw here inveted with a publick Character, and whoe Fame in England is equal to that of La Fontaine in France; Mr. Pope the Englih Boileau, Mr. Congreve who may be call'd their Moliere, and everal other eminent Perons whoe Names I have forgot; all thee would have rais'd the Glory of that Body to a great Height even in it's Infancy. But Queen Anne being natch'd uddenly from the World, the Whigs were reolv'd to ruin the Protectors of the intended Academy, a Circumtance that was of the mot fatal Conquence to polite Literature. The Members of this Academy would have