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My mother is much better this Summer than ought to be not having seen. Mrs Knight; 0 that I am sick every other day as usual this day for one : but muly & always,

Your most affectionate
& most humble Servant A.

Published as the Act directs from the Drigined Jan 1806

AN

ESSAY

ON THE

GENIUS AND WRITINGS

OF

POPE.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

By JOSEPH WARTON, D. D.

VOL. I.

THE FIFTH EDITION, CORRECTED.

To which is now added,

AN INDE X.

Satyra quidem tota nostra est: in qua primus insignem laudem adeptus est
Lucilius; qui quosdam ita deditos sibi adhuc habet amatores, ut eum, non
ejusdem modo operis autoribus, sed omnibus poetis, præferre non dubitent.

QUINTILIAN.

LONDON:

Printed by Thomas Maiden, Sherbourn-Lane, Lombard-Street,

FOR W. J. AND J. RICHARDSON; OTRIDGE AND SON; J. WALKER;
CUTHELL AND MARTIN; R. FAULDER; R. LEA; OGILVY AND SON;
J. NUNN; E. JEFFERY; LACKINGTON, ALLEN, AND CO. LONGMAN,
HURST, REES, AND ORME; CADELL AND DAVIES; J. AND A. ARCH;
J. ASPERNE; AND VERNOR, HOOD, AND SHARPE.

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