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 highly aburd; yet it may be preumed there are ome ubjects on which it may be ued with advantage. But not to enter upon any formal defence, the Author will only ay, That the fulnes and wantonnes of decription, the quaint implicity, and above all, the ludicrous, of which the antique phraeology and manner of Spener are so happily and peculiarly uceptible, inclined him to eteem it not olely as the bet, but the only mode of compoition adapted to his ubject.