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Lord Hallifax,
Works, or I may name them upon Comparison with the others to show the Difference, and maintain my Point. Mr. Dryden was indeed a Gentleman, but he writ more like a Scholar, and tho' the greatest Master of Poetry the Iast Age could boast, he wanted that Easiness and Familiarity, that Air of Freedom and unconstraint, that genteel[errata 1] and accomplished Manner of Expression, which is more sensibly to be perceived, than described.
To come to the present Times, my Lord Hallifax beareth a Title consecrated to Wit, and if he doth not reach the Saville Family in Heighth
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