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LETTER XXII.

ON

Mr. POPE,

And some other Famous

POETS.

I Intended to treat of Mr. Prior, one of the moſt amiable Engliſh Poets, whom you ſaw Plenipotentiary and Envoy Extraordinary at Paris in 1712. I alſo deſign'd to have given you ſome Idea of the Lord Roſcommon's and the Lord Dorſet's Muſe; but I find that to do this I ſhould be oblig'd to write a large Volume, and that after

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