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2. The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq., 1751, t. IV, p. 38, note au V. 'iko : « His merit in this will appear vei'y great, if we consider that in this walk lie had ail Ihe advantages which the niost poetic imagination could give to a great genius. M. Voltaire in a MS. letter now before me, writes thus from England to a friend in Paris : I intend to send you two or three poems of Mr. Pope, the best poet of England... » A la fin de la citation : Ms. Lel. Oct. 15, 1126.

3. Cf. dans l'avis déjà cité : « The fourth volume contains the Satires, with their Prologue, the Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, and Epilogue, the two poems entitled MDCCXXXVIII. The Prologue and Epilogue are hère given with Ihe like advantages as the Ethic Epistles in the foregoing volume, that is to say, with the variations or additional verses, from the author's manuscripts. The Epilogue to the Satires is likewise cnriched with many and large notes, now first printed from the author's own manuscript. »

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