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 to just criticism; but as it has more beauties than faults, it would be a kind of violence to candour to shew the blemishes.

The life of Mr. Fenton, like other poets who have been but little engaged in public business, being barren of incidents, we have dwelt the longer on this part of his Works, a tribute which his genius naturally demanded. As to the other poems of this amiable man, they will be found faithfully collected in the following pages.

Mr. Pope, as has been observed, wrote an epitaph upon Mr. Fenton, with which we shall close this life.